In Barry Manilow's version of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" what does "snap your caps" mean?
Is it Elton? Is it Billy? Is it Sting perhaps?
Oh you’ll never ever get it, don’t snap your caps.
meaning
In Barry Manilow's version of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" what does "snap your caps" mean?
Is it Elton? Is it Billy? Is it Sting perhaps?
Oh you’ll never ever get it, don’t snap your caps.
Best Answer
The phrase appears to date back to at least to 1940s America.
Take-off: American all-girl bands during World War Two by Tonya Bolden (2007):
The book of Negro folklore by Langston Hughes and Arna Wendell Bontemps (1958):
American speech, Volume 20 (1945):
Finally, here it is in a 1977 poem by Maureen Owen: