I've always sort of understood what this meant, but not really had occasion to use it as the idiom it is.
As I'm currently reading Don Quixote, I saw and read it's origin and was surprised to read the feat barely filled a very short chapter, and in fact the term itself was not actually used as far as I recall.
Anyway - since rediscovering the saying I am using the term a lot, and realize how appropriate it is (especially considering on the whole American's don't have clue what I'm talking about).
My wife is a prime example... she is always looking for a fight with something, be it a doctors office, a billing office, the supermarket, her mothers care etc.
Another example is a a woman I work with... for 8 hours a day she is fighting the world... everything is a crisis. It is the same for many of the people at work.
I on the other hand am the Sancho Panza... I run and hide from conflict.
I see while doing a Google search they are saying Donald Trump is Tilting at Windmills, and I have to say I was thinking exactly the same before I read that!
What is it with people?
Sorry... self indulgent thread. :sunglasses:
As I'm currently reading Don Quixote, I saw and read it's origin and was surprised to read the feat barely filled a very short chapter, and in fact the term itself was not actually used as far as I recall.
Anyway - since rediscovering the saying I am using the term a lot, and realize how appropriate it is (especially considering on the whole American's don't have clue what I'm talking about).
My wife is a prime example... she is always looking for a fight with something, be it a doctors office, a billing office, the supermarket, her mothers care etc.
Another example is a a woman I work with... for 8 hours a day she is fighting the world... everything is a crisis. It is the same for many of the people at work.
I on the other hand am the Sancho Panza... I run and hide from conflict.
I see while doing a Google search they are saying Donald Trump is Tilting at Windmills, and I have to say I was thinking exactly the same before I read that!
What is it with people?
Sorry... self indulgent thread. :sunglasses:
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