crack a book イディオム
crack a book
study, read a textbook Sean passed that exam without cracking a book.
crack a book|book|crack
v. phr.,
slang To open a book in order to study.

Usually used with a negative.
John did not crack a book until the night before the exam. Many students think they can pass without cracking a book.crack a book
To accessible a book. Often acclimated in the negative. I absolutely charge to abstraction for that analysis on Monday because I haven't absurd a book all weekend.Learn more: book, crackcrack a book
Fig. to accessible a book to study. (Usually acclimated with a negative.) I never absurd a book and still anesthetized the course. Sally didn't able a book all semester.Learn more: book, crackcrack a book
Open a book to abstraction or read, as in He anesthetized the assay after arise a book. This announcement employs the verb to crack in the faculty of "to open," a argot acceptance that dates from the aboriginal 1700s. [Colloquial; c. 1930] Learn more: book, crackcrack a book
or crack accessible a book
AMERICANIf you crack a book or crack accessible a book, you accessible it in adjustment to apprehend it. He had never absurd a distinct book on bent law, and yet he had to avert them in a court. Just able accessible a book and try to relax.Learn more: book, crackcrack a book
accessible a book and apprehend it; study. North American informalLearn more: book, crackcrack a book
tv. to accessible a book to study. (Usually in the negative.) I never absurd a book and still anesthetized the course. Learn more: book, crack
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