crack a smile: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    General Englishneutralinformal
    • To produce a small, often brief or reluctant smile.
    • To show a momentary or slight expression of amusement or pleasure, especially when it is unexpected or difficult to elicit.

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    • Even the stern teacher cracked a smile when the students performed the silly skit.

      Incluso el profesor severo esbozó una sonrisa cuando los estudiantes realizaron la obra tonta.

    • I rarely crack a smile during serious meetings, but your joke got me this time.

      Rara vez sonrío durante reuniones serias, pero esta vez tu broma me hizo sonreír.

    • She cracked a smile as she read the heartfelt letter from her old friend.

      Ella esbozó una sonrisa mientras leía la carta emotiva de su viejo amigo.

  • 2.

    General Englishneutralinformaltransitive usage
    • To cause someone to smile briefly or reluctantly (used transitively in constructions such as 'get someone to crack a smile').

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    • His silly antics finally got the grumpy boss to crack a smile during the briefing.

      Sus payasadas finalmente hicieron que el jefe gruñón esbozara una sonrisa durante la reunión.

    • If you want to get her to crack a smile, try telling a lighthearted story about your weekend.

      Si quieres hacerla sonreír, intenta contar una historia ligera sobre tu fin de semana.

    • The comedian’s jokes managed to get the usually serious audience to crack a smile.

      Los chistes del comediante lograron que el público usualmente serio esbozara una sonrisa.

Examples:

  • EN: Couldn't get him to crack a smile... if you were Olsen and Johnson and Martin and Louis put together.
    ES: A ese hombre no hay forma de arrancarle una sonrisa.
  • EN: - Can you get that nag to crack a smile?
    ES: - ¿Puede hacer que esa gruñoña sonría?
  • EN: You've found some unusual expressions, and a certain style. At least you made her crack a smile!
    ES: Has encontrado la expresión y el estilo y, al menos, ha sonreído.
  • EN: Four years and more on a poxy desert island... yet I can still crack a smile. Look at me!
    ES: ¡Estoy aquí!
  • EN: I'm gonna start counting If you crack a smile before I get to eight, I get to strangle you
    ES: Empezaré a contar, si te ries antes de llegar a ocho, te estrangularé.
  • EN: There's a hyena there that won't even crack a smile.
    ES: Hay una hiena que no quiere reír.
  • EN: Ridley doesn't even crack a smile, like he's got ice water in his veins.
    ES: Ridley ni siquiera sonrió, como si no tuviera sangre.
  • EN: I saw you crack a smile when I had that salesgirl fired.
    ES: Te vi sonreír cuando hice que despidieran a la vendedora.
  • EN: At least he'd crack a smile.
    ES: Al menos, sonreiría.
  • EN: He couldn't crack a smile.
    ES: Ese no parte ni una nuez.
  • EN: Before I started working with Viktor he could barely crack a smile let alone acknowledge his adoptive parents.
    ES: Antes de empezar a trabajar con Viktor no podía sonreír apenas... Y mucho menos reconocer a sus padres adoptivos.
  • EN: I'm hoping he didn 't crack a smile.
    ES: Espero que no esbozara una sonrisa.
  • EN: He could crack a smile!
    ES: ¡Podría sonreír!
  • EN: Oh, go on, crack a smile.
    ES: ¡oh! , siga, rompa una sonrisa.
  • EN: Dude, crack a smile.
    ES: Amigo, es algo bueno...

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