cut capers
Example Sentences
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Some bartenders in Yokohama and Kobe dress up on Christmas night like Santa Claus, serve drinks, cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the worst of all thy trials, for thou canst not defend thyself; and, in thy helplessness, fools and pigmies cut capers over thy grave.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
He cut capers on it; and made it laugh, and cry, and whistle, and snort, and scream.
From Two Christmas Celebrations by Parker, Theodore
When he reached the quay, in the joy of success, he began to whistle a dancing-tune and cut capers; his transports resembled those of a cannibal who dances around his victim.
From The Story of a Cat by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
