cut capers
Example Sentences
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On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It maitters little what he putts on, hooiver, for he wad joke an’ cut capers, baith pheesical an’ intellectual, I verily believe, if he was gaun to be hanged!
From The Garret and the Garden by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Well, let the people and papers Say what it please them to say, Shops of the politic drapers Follow them, sombre or gay, "Men" be austere, or cut capers, Still 'tis a glorious day!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various
They do not take any papers there; No politicians cut capers there; They have no 'views,' And they tell no news, And they burn no midnight tapers there.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
