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
Cā′perer, a dancer.—To cut a caper, to dance or act fantastically.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Then, closing the slate down close, he spun round, cut a caper, struck an attitude, and began sparring and dancing round me in the most absurd manner.
From Burr Junior by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any lord in the whole empire.
From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Balliet, Thomas M.
