crack open a bottle

"We cracked open a bottle of champagne when I finally broke through."

You crack open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate all your hard work.

"It was a truly terrible lunch, and I celebrated by cracking open a bottle of water."

You might crack open a bottle on a friend's - but not a really good friend's - birthday.

But there's much more to do than simply cracking open a bottle of champagne with the loved one in a luxurious hotel.

He cracked open a bottle of mineral water and took a couple of slow pulls.

If the disappointment gets too much you can always crack open a bottle of Moët.

But I think very carefully before cracking open a bottle of cognac in front of the faithful."

Then I cracked opened a bottle of Black Jack and poured stiff drinks of whiskey all around.

In minutes, though, Armstrong was refreshed, lounging in the back of a sport utility vehicle, cracking open a bottle of light beer.

Man utd 3-3 wasn't the most ideal result, but after watching this incident I bet Fergie cracked open a bottle of his finest red.

We had a lovely celebration supper, and cracked open a bottle of champagne, and toasted the rest of Luke's life, and the wedding, and each other.

I crack open a bottle of Bud, light up a Camel and in the cause of exposition (cos like I say I'm not enigmatic) explain what's to do.

"That very first night," Mrs. Hill said, "I went into the garden and got tomatoes and basil; we barbecued a chicken and cracked open a bottle of wine.

We cracked open a bottle of expensive Champagne on Christmas Eve, but neither of us had the heart to finish it, and we ended up in bed before 11 o'clock.

They cracked open a bottle of wine, and by the end of the night she was feeling very pleasantly mellow and totally convinced that the world was a supremely beautiful place.

'If Salvador Dalí, Dr. Seuss and Douglas Adams had ever cracked open a bottle of absinthe and written a sitcom, it might have turned out like this.'

They are so good, in fact, that if you crack open a bottle at the 19th hole under a big South African sky, that short putt you missed on the last will feel like a distant memory.

As I found a table and cracked open a bottle of Dr. Brown's cream soda, I thought about this valuable piece of New York City information and the person I had learned it from.

That perhaps explains why Mr. Alagna and Ms. Gheorghiu cracked open a bottle of Champagne for a visitor to their comfortable home overlooking Lake Geneva before their trip to the United States.

If you were stuck for a reason to crack open a bottle of something today, let me help by telling you it's the birthday of the remote control - something that you can celebrate without really needing to be there, presumably.

As the sun rose higher in the cloudless sky and the sea below took on an almost Mediterranean hue, Bert and Bella Rafferty and Celia and Brian Markham cracked open a bottle of champagne.

"If selling a property means letting a client throw a dinner party, crack open a bottle of wine or spend the night so they understand the traffic patterns at 8 a.m. or midnight, by all means we're going to make it happen," he said.

When he gets a headache after reading an obituary of one of his enemies, for example, he cracks open a bottle of Tylenol and notices that "it spells lonely backwards with / only the initial T added, signifying / taxes no doubt."