Antonyms for cut capers

Grammar : Verb

Definition of cut capers

As in play : verb have fun
As in romp : verb have fun, enjoy oneself
As in caper : verb frolic, cavort
As in frolic : verb have fun, make merry

Example sentences :

Never dance la cuisinire, that is to say, do not cut capers.
Extract from : « The Comic English Grammar » by Percival Leigh

And you won't kick up, and rear up and cut capers, like a horse?
Extract from : « The Red Moccasins » by Morrison Heady

For Toddy, Alresca was simply an individual who sang and cut capers.
Extract from : « The Ghost » by Arnold Bennett

I had to choose: Cut capers and be followed, or walk in dignity, ignored.
Extract from : « Paul Kelver » by Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

With a pole he had stepped aboard, and then proceeded to "cut capers."
Extract from : « The Chums of Scranton High » by Donald Ferguson

Then throwing aside his crutches, he began to cut capers, as if nothing ailed him, to the still greater amazement of the negro.
Extract from : « The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Like the Yankee Noodle, he cut capers that had no intelligible meaning in them, just to make people stare.
Extract from : « Chambers' Edinburgh Journal » by Various

They dress him up in a clown's costume, and order him to cut capers, turn and twist and bow, and kill—he does it all submissively.
Extract from : « The Kingdom of God is Within You » by Count Leo Tolstoy

"Dancing-masters" were those who taught their scholars to cut capers by running swords through their legs.
Extract from : « Club Life of London, Vol. I (of 2) » by John Timbs

They cut capers, take leaps of the easiest kind, climb up the trunk of a tree which a child three years old might climb.
Extract from : « La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages » by Jules Michelet

Synonyms for cut capers

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