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 guess I cut a caper at Henry's house.

From Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Stewart, Cal

Sir Andrew thinks himself "old in nothing but in understanding," and boasts that he can cut a caper, dance the coranto, walk a jig, and take delight in masques, like a young man.—Shakespeare,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

And then he cut a caper, and come close to the edge of the pan, and shook his fist in Pinch-a-Penny's face again.

From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Duncan, Norman