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
Cut a caper on nothing, said Gymnast; my pages use to cut capers on the ground; to cut a caper on nothing should be hanging and choking, or I am out.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Felix cut a caper; and then they went into the room.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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
