Meaning of throw one's cap over the windmill | Babel Free

Definitions

To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“Awfully commercial, women nowadays. Our grandmothers threw their caps over the mills, of course, but, by Jove, their granddaughters only throw their caps over mills that can raise the wind for them.”

“Even Catherine’s own mother scandalized her daughter by succumbing to the contagion of the place, and “throwing her cap over the windmill,” as the French have it.”

“Besides, Suzanne had already thrown her bonnet over the windmill.”

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