caper Idiom, Proverb
caper
caper cut a caper or
cut capers to caper
cut capers
cut capers 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 “goat,” 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): “Faith, I can cut a caper.”