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Gegen Windmühlen kämpfen
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Gegen Windmühlen kämpfen
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📖 Literal Translation
To fight against windmills
💡 Meaning
To fight against imaginary enemies or insurmountable, often self-created, problems; to tilt at windmills.
🌍 Equivalent:"To tilt at windmills"
📜 Origin:This idiom originates from Miguel de Cervantes' novel 'Don Quixote', where the protagonist famously attacks windmills, mistaking them for giants.
Example Sentences
1
Du kämpfst gegen Windmühlen, diese Bürokratie ist unbesiegbar.
You're fighting windmills, this bureaucracy is unbeatable.
2
Seine Bemühungen, das System zu ändern, waren wie ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen.
His efforts to change the system were like tilting at windmills.