Idiom
cap over the windmill
Meaning
In a bizarre or eccentric manner.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He acts with his cap over the windmill sometimes.”
“The artist threw his cap over the windmill and painted the entire living room neon green.”
“Ignoring all social conventions, the eccentric inventor threw his cap over the windmill and began conducting his experiments in the middle of the public square.”
Examples
simple
“He acts with his cap over the windmill sometimes.”
contextual
“The artist threw his cap over the windmill and painted the entire living room neon green.”
complex
“Ignoring all social conventions, the eccentric inventor threw his cap over the windmill and began conducting his experiments in the middle of the public square.”
Origin
From the verbal phrase *throw one's cap over the windmill*. In the absence of dates or named personages in the record, the expression remains a literal image of a reckless gesture.
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