cut a caper
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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
For somewhiles he would whistle and somewhiles he would gape, and otherwhiles he would cut a caper or two.
From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle
His first impulse was to cut a caper on the roof of the coach, and throw up his cap with a loud hurrah!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) by Various
As she left him, he said, she had cut a caper and had sprung fully two yards into the air.
From The Story of Don Quixote by Florence Choate
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