tilt at windmills
tilt at windmills {v. phr.}, {literary}
To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote).
John is a nice guy but when it comes to departmental meetings he wastes everybody's time by constantly tilting at windmills.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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