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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"And you won't kick up, and rear up and cut capers, like a horse?"

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison

But Fido ran in, who loved little Frank, And the shoes were remembered no more; They began to cut capers, but at the first prank Down tumbled poor Frank on the floor.

From Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot

For Toddy, Alresca was simply an individual who sang and cut capers.

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Bennett, Arnold

Related Words

• cavort
• frolic
• gambol
• prance