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Open a book to study or read, as in He passed the exam without cracking a book . This expression employs the verb to crack in the sense of “to open,” a slang usage that dates from the early 1700s. [ Colloquial ; c. 1930]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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