crack a bottle

Idioms  

1. Open a bottle so as to drink its contents, as in Let's celebrate by cracking a bottle of champagne! This seemingly modern colloquialism was first recorded in H. Kelly's School for Wives (1773): “When shall we crack a bottle together?”

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Example Sentences

"Tell the landlord to get us supper," he said; "we'll crack a bottle to our luck."

From Villa Rubein, and other stories by Galsworthy, John

So when he was passing through Paris the other day he 'phoned me to the effect of come and crack a bottle with me, come and let's reminisce together over the good old days.

From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max

Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.

From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"Now give me the railway timetable; for I have far to go ere I return, when you and I shall crack a bottle of Clos Vosgeot with our dinner."

From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler

"Shall we not crack a bottle together on this side of the circumfluent Oceanus?"

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George