cut capers

Idioms  

1. 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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cut capers

On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rodolphus did not answer, but began to turn summersets and cut capers on the grass, making all sorts of antic gestures and funny grimaces toward his mother.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

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

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

They cut capers, take leaps of the easiest kind, climb up the trunk of a tree which a child three years old might climb.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

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