to cut a dido

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to cut a dido - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dido \Di"do\, n.; pl. Didos.
     A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
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     To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps
        so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so
        much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it
        into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a
        citadel.
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