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crack a joke
Idioms and Phrases
Make a joke, say something humorous, as in You can count on Grandpa to crack a joke on every occasion . This expression uses the verb to crack in the now obsolete sense of “briskly pronounce” or “boast.” [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
He’d tell a related story, crack a joke and complain about his golf game.
He’s quick to crack a joke while describing his often-tenuous living situations.
Mallory was named “most serious player” although she also knows when to crack a joke to relieve the tension in a tight match.
He thought he looked sharp until an older man stopped to crack a joke.
But Mark Morris, saucy and never shy to crack a joke, has done just that with his world premiere set to Bach’s Partita No. 3 in A minor.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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