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

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

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

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de

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

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Bennett, Arnold

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