throw one's cap over the windmillとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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throw one's cap over the windmill (third-person singular simple present throws one's cap over the windmill, present participle throwing one's cap over the windmill, simple past threw one's cap over the windmill, past participle thrown one's cap over the windmill)

1. (idiomatic, dated) To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner.

   Synonym: throw one's hat over the windmill

   • 1892, Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III:

     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.

   • 1914, E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia‎:

     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.

   • 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors:

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

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