tilt at windmills
Example Sentences
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Driven by Ma's force of personality, Alibaba was able to tilt at windmills, said Duncan Clark, managing director of Beijing-based tech advisory BDA and a former consultant for Alibaba.
From Reuters • Jun. 8, 2014
Cumani is simply not the sort of trainer to tilt at windmills.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011
But you also lose a bit of the edge that leads you to tilt at windmills.
From Time • Mar. 4, 2010
As Einstein's example makes clear, very smart people sometimes tilt at windmills.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We are the only people who tilt at windmills these days—we and our cousins, the British, who taught us."
From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
