crack a book

Example Sentences

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“But you’re not allowed to crack a book open.”

From Los Angeles Times

How do you crack a book against a rating scale, the way you can with a new reality show?

From Slate

You live in a big house, the biggest, actually, and everyone in the whole school knows your name, and you are always giving these amazingly well-attended talks, from chairs and stools, and yet, for all of that, people don’t always do what you say, or admit that you are above reproach in all things and always have exactly the right idea about everything, even better ideas than the so-called experts, like Mrs. Gut-Symphony Jones, though you never even crack a book.

From The New Yorker

He believes that if you want to learn something, go crack a book and do it.

From New York Times

Comics encourage early and reluctant readers to crack a book, and comics deliver funny, smart, and exciting stories to children at all reading levels.

From Slate