cut capers
Example Sentences
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On this broad platform the infant publication immediately began to cut capers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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)
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)
They cut capers, take leaps of the easiest kind, climb up the trunk of a tree which a child three years old might climb.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules