Sekirov Dictionary

throw one's cap over the windmill

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(old-fashioned) 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

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