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thrown one's cap over the windmill

thrown one's cap over the windmill is the past participle of throw one's cap over the windmill.

Meaning of throw one's cap over the windmill

Verb

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. (dated, idiomatic) To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner.
    • 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.1892, Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III

Questions about thrown one's cap over the windmill

What is thrown one's cap over the windmill the past participle of?
Thrown one's cap over the windmill is the past participle of throw one's cap over the windmill.

Words near thrown one's cap over the windmill in the dictionary

  1. thrown off balance
  2. thrown off on
  3. thrown off the trail
  4. thrown on
  5. thrown one's back out
  6. thrown one's cap over the windmill
  7. thrown one's hat in the ring
  8. thrown one's hat into the ring
  9. thrown one's hat over the fence
  10. thrown one's hat over the wall
  11. thrown one's hotdog down someone's hallway

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