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crack a smile
Language:
Meanings:
1.
General English
neutral
informal
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.
2.
General English
neutral
informal
transitive usage
To cause someone to smile briefly or reluctantly (used transitively in constructions such as 'get someone to crack a smile').
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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