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

Others were dancing upon their hands, others cut capers on the slack rope, and others went always upon one foot.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

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

They change the positions on the shelves every so often; the dipping-machine tenders cut capers and mark the same kind of chocolates differently to-day from yesterday.

From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

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