LOCK HORNS and TILT AT WINDMILLS:

 From Sampath’s Desk:

 

LOCK HORNS  and TILT AT WINDMILLS:

 

LOCK HORNS:

 

Meaning:

 

If you LOCK HORNS with someone, you argue or fight with him/her/them (and/or) involving, engaging, or embroiling oneself in conflict/clash with another.

 

முட்டுதல், மோதுதல்.

 

 

Example sentences:

 

During his five years in office, ‘X’ has often LOCKED HORNS with his colleagues as well as the administration.

 

The Mayor and his Deputy Mayor LOCKED HORNS over plans for the new road construction.

 

The lawyers didn’t want to LOCK HORNS with the Judge while arguing a genuine case as it might anger or antagonize him.

 

When the hero and villain LOCK HORNS on the silver screen, the viewers get transported to a pinnacle of joy who view them with a lot of interest and excitement.

 

    

TILT AT WINDMILLS:

 

Meaning:

 

If you say that someone is TILTING AT WINDMILLS, you mean that they are wasting their time on problems or issues which in your opinion are not real problems at all – to waste time fighting enemies or trying to resolve issues that are imaginary, unimportant or impossible to overcome and worthless to attempt – fighting battles with imaginary enemies on unimportant issues.

 

Also  – A person who TILTS AT WINDMILLS tries to do things that will never work in practice.

 

 

Example sentences:

 

It looks like a non-issue. So, I don’t want to TILT AT WINDMILLS. Yes, I really don’t like to waste my time.

 

If you diversify into an activity where you have absolutely no perceivable competitive advantage, you are just TILTING AT WINDMILLS.

 

It is a trivial thing. You need to stop wasting your time TILTING AT WINDMILLS.

 

I think our company keeps TILTING AT WINDMILLS with its insistence on implementing a service structure that serves no immediate purpose. It is a sheer waste of time, energy, and resource.

 

  

Proverbs:

 

நாயின் மலத்தை மிதிப்பானேன், நல்ல தண்ணீர் வார்த்துக் கழுவுவானேன்?

Why tread on the dung of a dog, and then waste good water to wash it off?

 

நான் ஒன்றை எண்ண விதி ஒன்றை எண்ணிற்று.

While I expected one thing, destiny ordained another.



(R.SAMPATH)

28/7/2021

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

KAVIGNAR (TAMIL POET) VAALI

Image
FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:         KAVIGNAR (TAMIL POET) VAALI ( வாலிப கவிஞர் வாலி) (29 October 1931-18 July 2013)       Vaali Sir (T.S.RANGARAJAN) – born in Srirangam, Trichy, Tamil Nadu - was a great legendary Tamil-poet-cum-lyricist with a gift of the gab and pen, who had to his credit more than 15000 film songs and a host of other literary works, He was a contemporary of Kannadasan. His songs were thought-provoking, conscience-stirring, awareness-generating and highly inspiring. Yes, with his departure, a great saga of an eventful career of a distinguished lyricist spanning more than five decades has come to an end. The poetic circles, and the literary and tinsel worlds have become poorer by his passing. Transcending barriers including generations, he had offered something for everyone belonging to both old and new generations to remember and cherish forever. Vaali made his humble beginning, as is the wont with every writer, with a devo...
Read more

Sir C.V. RAMAN

Image
FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:       Sir C.V. RAMAN (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970)   Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born on 7 th November 1888 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu.   An Indian physicist well known for his work in ‘light scattering’, he invented, duly aided by his student KS Krishnan,  that ‘when light traverses a transparent object (say like a prism), the wavelength and amplitude necessarily get changed for some of the deflected light’. This phenomenon of scattering of light was named as ‘Raman Effect’, also well known as ‘Raman Scattering’.   Raman was conferred with Nobel Prize in Physis in 1930. The other awards received by him were:   Fellow of the Royal Society (1924)   Matteucci Medal (1928)   Knight Bachelore (1930)   Hughes Medal (1930)   India’s Bharat Ratna (1954)   Lenin Peace Prize (1957)   He was associated with the Indian Finance Department, Rajaba...
Read more

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Image
  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   RABINDRANATH TAGORE (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)     Needless to say, Rabindranath Tagore is synonymous with India’s national anthem ‘Jana gana mana’. Born in Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Bengal (British India), Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath and versatile persona viz. poet, playwright, dramatist, novelist, essayist, story-writer, composer, philosopher, social reformer, educationist, linguist, grammarian, and painter - all rolled into one - who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful poetic collection called GITANJALI. He was the first non-European to receive the accolade after Theodore Roosevelt (26 th President of the United States) who received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.   Tagore wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh also called 'Amar Sonar Bangla' in 1905.   Although  Rabindranath’s father sent his son to a public school in Brighton, England with ...
Read more