A variant of the expression appeared in Frederic W. Bring your dream waifu to laifu Recent Reviews: Mostly Positive (54) All Reviews: Very Positive (4,844) Release Date: Developer: ILLUSION Publisher: ILLUSION Popular user-defined tags for this product: Sexual Content Nudity Mature Hentai NSFW + 0:00 / 0:00 Autoplay videos This game is marked as 'Adult Only'. The equivalent French phrase is se battre contre les moulins à vent. At this Quixote’s squire Sancho Panza says that anyone who mistakes windmills for giants must have windmills in his head, i.e., suffer delusions, be crazy. The allusion is to Cervantes’ Don Quixote de la Mancha, in which the hero Don Quixote imagines the windmills he has come upon to be giants and proceeds to do battle, with the result that both the knight and his horse are injured and his lance destroyed.
Tilt at windmills To combat imaginary evils, to fight opponents or injustices that are merely the figments of an over-active imagination.
One source suggests that this expression alludes to the dreams and schemes which may inspire an opium addict after he has smoked a pipeful of the drug. Pipe dream An unrealistic and often fantastic plan, goal, or idea.
