cut capers

cut capers

To play and run around in a jubilant manner. The weather is so nice that the kids have been cutting capers in the back yard all morning.
See also: caper, cut
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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."
See also: caper, cut
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • PITBY
  • give (someone or something) the run of (some place)
  • bounce (something) back and forth
  • bounce back and forth
  • cut across
  • cut across (something)
  • a/(one's) brush with (something)
  • brush
  • caper
  • come up a storm
References in classic literature
I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.
Mansfield Park
Evening performances concluded with Cut Capers and The Kiffness.
Family fun as jazz festival showcases vibrant sounds from top artists
The festival will feature nine award-winning acts from around the world including Ana Popovic (US), Indian Ocean (India), Swing Ninjas, Cut Capers (UK), The Kiffness (South Africa) as well as influential Bahraini bands Likwid, Ala Ghawas and the Havaneros.
Bahrain Jazz Fest
Other acts include Shooglenifty, Bez's Acid House, Peatbog Faeries, Plump DJ's, Mungos Hi Fi, Eatstatic, Stanton Warriors, Ghetto Funk All Stars, Zion Train, Electric Swing Circus, Cut Capers, Askillz, Mr B Gentleman Rhymer, Bombskare, Blazin Fiddles, JFB, WBBL, Manudigital, The Turbans, Kog and the Zongo Brigade, Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5, Nightwave, Talisk and Mr Motivator.
EDEN FEST NEEDS YOU ... 10 years of festival
Performances on the day will come from Bristol-based Cut Capers, who will be taking time out of their intensive gauntlet of festivals to bring us their up-tempo, multi-lingual blend of reggae and hip hop.
You'd be mad to miss the professor; DUB PRODUCER TAKES CENTRE STAGE AS REGGAE AND JAMAICAN CULTURE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE CITY
But although it would be foolish to expect naturalism in "Waiting for Godot," how come so doddery an Estragon, incapable of taking off his own boots, can so nimbly cut capers?
Waiting for Godot