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cut capers
Idioms and Phrases
Also, cut a caper . Frolic or romp, as in The children cut capers in the pile of raked leaves . The noun caper comes from the Latin for 鈥済oat,鈥 and the allusion is to act in the manner of a young goat clumsily frolicking about. The expression was first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1:3): 鈥淔aith, I can cut a caper.鈥Example Sentences
鈥淭hen I鈥檒l stay still. I don鈥檛 care much for company dancing. It鈥檚 no fun to go sailing round. I like to fly about and cut capers.鈥
He felt so light-hearted and joyous that he would have willingly thrown his square hat in the air, and cut capers on the pavement.
It seemed he was about to cut capers with Mr. Wogan on his shoulders.
He seized both my hands and squeezed them hard; he would have cut capers in the street, if I had not prevented him.
I'll go to the ball, cut capers, and have a jolly time!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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