Bananagrams

Donna used all of her Bananagrams tiles to make this fascinating layout on Monday.  I was fascinated by the word "quixote" hanging down from "squid" on the right side, so I looked it up:

"Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist."

It's from the 17th century, based on the book by Miguel de Cervantes.  Today, I was reading along in my current book and came across the word "quixotic."  How coincidental is that?  So it shall be today's word.

Word of the Day

quix·ot·ic / kwikˈsädik / adjective = exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.  "It was a vast and perhaps quixotic project."

That brings up an idiom

Can you tell that Don Quixote is "tilting at windmills" on the book's cover?  That phrase is an English idiom which means "attacking imaginary enemies."