crack wide open
Example Sentences
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But Nora has taken out a secret loan to help her husband recover from an illness, and when the truth emerges the faultlines in their marriage crack wide open.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2012
But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The arrival was all I needed to crack wide open in a howling fit of hysteria.
From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver
When you get the truth flung in your face, even you crack wide open.
From Planet of the Gods by Williams, Robert Moore
No other eleven had stood up so long under Delmar's terrific charging and John Brown's team must crack wide open soon.
From Interference and Other Football Stories by Sherman, Harold Morrow