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cut capers

Also, cut a caper. Frolic or romp, as in The children cut capers in the pile of raked leaves. The noun caper comes from the Latin for “goat,” and the allusion is to act in the manner of a young goat clumsily frolicking about. The expression was first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1:3): “Faith, I can cut a caper.”

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“Then I’ll stay still. I don’t care much for company dancing. It’s no fun to go sailing round. I like to fly about and cut capers.”

He felt so light-hearted and joyous that he would have willingly thrown his square hat in the air, and cut capers on the pavement.

It seemed he was about to cut capers with Mr. Wogan on his shoulders.

He seized both my hands and squeezed them hard; he would have cut capers in the street, if I had not prevented him.

I'll go to the ball, cut capers, and have a jolly time!

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