cut capers
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On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Rodolphus did not answer, but began to turn summersets and cut capers on the grass, making all sorts of antic gestures and funny grimaces toward his mother.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
They do not take any papers there; No politicians cut capers there; They have no 'views,' And they tell no news, And they burn no midnight tapers there.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
Much as he loved to cut capers and play tricks on others, Moses never liked to have any one get a laugh on him.
From The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales by Smith, Harry L.