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词汇 cracks
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idiomcracksfall through the cracksfail if a particular group of people fall through the cracks, a system or arrangement fails to deal with them or include them:Our sales management software will help you ensure that your valuable sales prospects can't fall through the cracks.However good our schools are, many children will simply fall through the cracks if they don't have home environments that are stable and secure.paper over the cracks BrEBrE(also paper over the conflict, disagreement, difference etc)to hide the effects of an argument or a problem without really improving the situationused especially in newspapers:The Minister, while still attempting to paper over the cracks, admitted that the Government was divided on the question of immigration controls.The EU and the US only managed to reach an agreement after all the most difficult points had been removed or papered over.
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crack

1. n. the gap between the buttocks. You wanna get kicked in the crack?
2. n. the gap between the lips of the vulva. (see also crack-rack.) He screamed something rude about her crack and slapped her.
3. n. women considered as the object of copulation and male sexual release. (Usually with some. Rude and derogatory.) Jed said he had to have some crack soon or he would die.
4. n. a joke; a smart-aleck remark. Another crack like that and your nose will be so reshaped.
5. n. a try (that may or may not succeed). Have another crack at it.
6. n. a unit of something (for a particular price); a use (of something). You would think twice, too, if you remembered that it’s seven dollars a crack.
7. n. crystalline, smokable cocaine. (Drugs.) This crack seems to have become the drug of choice for punks of all ages.
8. in. to break down and talk under pressure. (Underworld.) They kept at her till she finally cracked and talked.
9. mod. [of a person] excellent; top-flight. The dealer’s crack salesman was no help at all.
10. tv. to break into something. (Underworld.) We almost cracked the safe before the alarm went off.
See:
  • a fair crack at something
  • a fair crack of the whip
  • a hard egg to crack
  • a hard nut (to crack)
  • a sledgehammer to crack a nut
  • a tough nut
  • a tough nut to crack
  • at the crack of dawn
  • crack
  • crack (something) wide open
  • crack a book
  • crack a bottle
  • crack a bottle open
  • crack a crib
  • crack a fat
  • crack a joke
  • crack a smile
  • crack a tube
  • crack down
  • crack down on, to
  • crack house
  • crack of dawn
  • crack of dawn, (at) the
  • crack of doom
  • crack on
  • crack open
  • crack open a bottle
  • crack open a/the bottle
  • crack some suds
  • crack someone up
  • crack the code, to
  • crack the door
  • crack the door (open)
  • crack the whip
  • crack through (something)
  • crack under the strain
  • crack up
  • crack wise
  • crackbrain
  • crackbrained
  • crackhead
  • crackpot
  • crack-rack
  • dirty crack
  • employ a steam engine to crack a nut
  • fall between the cracks
  • fall through the cracks
  • first crack at
  • get the first crack at (something)
  • give (one) a fair crack of the whip
  • give (someone) the first crack at (something)
  • hard nut to crack
  • have (the) first crack at (something)
  • have a crack at
  • have a crack at (something)
  • have a crack at something
  • He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut
  • make a crack
  • make cracks about
  • paper over
  • paper over (something)
  • paper over (the cracks), to
  • paper over the cracks
  • plumber's crack
  • slip between the cracks
  • slip through the cracks
  • take a crack at (something)
  • take a crack at something
  • take a sledgehammer to crack a nut
  • take the first crack at (something)
  • the crack of dawn
  • the first crack at (something)
  • through the cracks
  • tough egg (to crack)
  • tough egg to crack
  • tough nut to crack
  • tough nut to crack, a
  • try at
  • use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
  • want the first crack at (something)
  • you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
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