crack open
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Meaning
(informal) To open (a bottle, can, etc. of drink, especially alcoholic drink), especially in order to celebrate; also extended to other packaged items.
Let's crack open a few beers and get the party started.
After Christmas dinner we cracked open a box of chocolates.
(informal) To start reading (a book).
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crack, open.
I cracked open the fossilised rock with a hammer.
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The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
An enraged Hulk was able to crack open Onslaught's shell.
Despite the limitations, theaters that have chosen the audio medium as a workaround under coronavirus restrictions have found that it can crack open a trove of possibilities and allow for new artistic feats.
“The first hit might not make it, but after that 115th, 200th, 2,000th hit on that stone, that thing will crack open and we’ve got to continue to push and work to dig through that thing.”