English Explanatory Dictionary

mistake windmills for giants

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To perceive ordinary, nonthreatening objects or situations as significant dangers or adversaries, often due to an overly romantic, idealistic, or deluded worldview.

Word forms

mistake windmills for giants mistakes windmills for giants mistaking windmills for giants mistook windmills for giants mistaken windmills for giants

Etymology

Something to do with Don Quixote...

Related words

throw one's cap over the windmill tilt at windmills
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