crack a smile

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.

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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.

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It’s intended for the audience to occasionally at least crack a smile during the show’s tougher scenes.

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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.

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He can crack a smile and a joke or two, but the bespectacled leader can often take on the grimace of a disappointed elder.

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Mrs. Brisbane didn’t crack a smile.

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