"A lot of the time it seems we are tilting at windmills," Richard said.

This is the source of the phrase tilting at windmills.

It's time for the two men to stop tilting at windmills and start focusing on what's important.

If you want to go tilting at windmills tonight, you're on your own."

Commitment and dedication remained, but tilting at windmills had to stop.

Mr. Gray says he is not just tilting at windmills.

The suit may be seen as tilting at windmills.

"I'm tilting at windmills all over the world," he chuckled.

He was tilting at windmills, like a complete fool.

There is real damage being done here but labour are tilting at windmills

Expecting someone to risk their paycheck, benefits and retirement to go tilting at windmills?

Such ambitions are pure fantasy and mere tilting at windmills.

"I felt that fighting post-modernism was like tilting at windmills.

Tired of tilting at windmills, they abandoned their buildings.

What she could not know was that she was tilting at windmills.

"I am not interested in tilting at windmills."

"You're tilting at windmills again, aren't you, my dearesf friend?"

So it's basically tilting at windmills for you.

Tilting at windmills is an English idiom which means attacking imaginary enemies.

But Leakey may not be tilting at windmills.

What's needed are clear rules governing campaign contributions, not another independent counsel to spend millions of dollars tilting at windmills.

He is Don Quixote tilting at windmills with no hope of finding peace.

He'd always been a man who knew what he wanted--why waste time tilting at windmills?

You seem to be tilting at windmills.

Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."