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throws one's cap over the windmill

throws one's cap over the windmill is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Throws one's cap over the windmill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of throw one's cap over the windmill.

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

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

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