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
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.
Upon Saturday last ... the Duke did rise up, in a well-disposed humour, out of his bed, and cut a caper or two....
From Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various
The patchwork blouse cut a caper, a look of lively joy shot from the man's eyes, where a tear was gathering, and the wagon, from its bursting cover, gave utterance to a sob.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
