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crack a smile
crack a smileTo smile. I got the baby to crack a smile by clapping and singing.See also: crack, smilecrack a smileto grin; to smile. I was tellin' my best jokes, but Jim never cracked a smile. She looked surprised, and then cracked a big, beautiful smile.See also: crack, smilecrack a smileSmile, 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. See also: crack, smile |