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crack a smile
Idioms and Phrases
Smile, as in Betty was a very serious person; she rarely cracked a smile . This colloquialism transfers crack in the sense of “break†to breaking a serious facial expression into a smile.Example Sentences
Though really, I was more than eager to breeze through the hard stuff, “win†a few sessions by making my therapist crack a smile at my mental binder of self-critical jokes and then graduate onto the next thing.
It’s intended for the audience to occasionally at least crack a smile during the show’s tougher scenes.
As Obama described Harris as a president who would stand up for working-class Americans, convention attendees began to chant "yes she can," prompting the former president to crack a smile and repeat the phrase with them.
He can crack a smile and a joke or two, but the bespectacled leader can often take on the grimace of a disappointed elder.
Mrs. Brisbane didn’t crack a smile.
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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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