cut a caper

Example Sentences

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When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

He peeped into the bag and cut a caper of delight when he saw the buns.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

I smell him; He looks on's legs too, sure he will cut a caper; God-a-mercy, dear December.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Beaumont, Francis

Cut a caper on nothing, said Gymnast; my pages use to cut capers on the ground; to cut a caper on nothing should be hanging and choking, or I am out.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Here he showed ivory to his ears, cut a caper, and danced into the fort.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various