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

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

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

Aye, she can crack a bottle at twelve paces with a pistol.

From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Come, that's a good one; I can crack a bottle too, but not so far off.

From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Moses, Montrose Jonas

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

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George