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
If you can't afford joists stiff enough to hold you without jarring, even when you chance to cut a caper with the baby, defer building till you are a little richer.
From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
Will neither gingham nor brocade romp and cut a caper for us?
From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen
Monsieur La Touche came out with eight sail of the line and six frigates, cut a caper off Sepet, and went in again.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
