cut didoes

cut didoes: разг.

(cut (up) didoes)

дурачиться, валять дурака [первонач. амер.]

‘I wouldn't get on a bucking horse... And you say yourself that Bob doesn't buck.’ ‘But you've never seen him cutting up didoes,’ Daylight continued. (J. London, ‘Burning Daylight’, part II, ch. XIII) — - Я бы не села на лошадь, которая сбрасывает седока... Но вы же сами говорите, что Боб не сбрасывает. - Вы не видели, какие он выкидывает штучки, - убеждал Пламенный.

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cut (up) didoes — N. Amer. informal play pranks. → dido … English new terms dictionary
cut up didoes — To behave in an extravagant way • • • Main Entry: ↑dido … Useful english dictionary
play the fool — Cut capers, cut didoes, act the buffoon, act like a fool, make a fool of one s self, play tricks or pranks … New dictionary of synonyms
dido — ☆ dido [dī′dō ] n. pl. didoes or didos [< ? DIDO, from the story that Dido, on purchasing as much land as might be covered with the hide of a bull, ordered the hide cut into thin strips, with which she surrounded a large area] Informal a… … English World dictionary
dido — noun (plural didoes or didos) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1807 1. a mischievous or capricious act ; prank, antic often used in the phrase cut didoes 2. something that is frivolous or showy … New Collegiate Dictionary
dido — prank, caper, 1807, Amer.Eng. slang, perhaps from the name of the Carthaginian queen in the Aeneid. Usually in phrase to cut didoes … Etymology dictionary
dido — [ dʌɪdəʊ] noun (plural didoes or didos) (in phr. cut (up) didoes) N. Amer. informal play pranks. Origin C19: of unknown origin … English new terms dictionary
Dido — n. (pl. oes or os) US colloq. an antic, a caper, a prank. Phrases and idioms: cut (or cut up) didoes play pranks. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn … Useful english dictionary

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