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.

See also: Dido

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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