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Definition: To cut a dido
Dido
\Di"do\, n.; pl.
Didos.
A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
[1913 Webster]
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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