to crack on
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6.8
- phrasal verb
- /kræk ɒn/
- UK
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seguir adelante
- I need to crack on with my homework so I can finish it before dinner.
Put the mask on him, you know, Crack on, soldier on, man up.
- Put the mask on him, you know, Crack on, soldier on, man up.
- I am going to crack on with this and get started.
- And then I'm just lying there and I'm just like, I need to crack on.
- So if I just pop that on, Bob's your uncle and this and I can crack on with my screen time.
- And but it's, you know, like anything else, you, you put your mind to it and you crack on and you soon see that.
- And the story, like if people want to be someone else or something else, let them crack on.
- I've got great people that, that work with me, that I'm allowed that I can dump stuff on, talk to, ask questions and and allow them to go and crack on with their jobs as well.
- I was cracking on with the Instagram posts and Twitter posts and millions of people watching them.
- But I've got to crack on and do other things because, you know, money doesn't just grow on trees.
- If you want to split us up, you crack on what you want to do and we'll get on with getting on with each other.
- It's been a while since I've actually sat and filmed a video, so I can't remember how to do this, but we're just going to crack on.
Examples
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I really have to get cracking on mine before the family descends at Christmas.
Blog text (24) -
Shall we crack on with the case?
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I am going to crack on with this and get started.
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But you know, you have to crack on and get the day done.
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And yeah, then going to crack on with all of this.
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And I think we're just going to crack on with private because money we have, time, not so much.
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Right, crack on with it.
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Crack on with the work.
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And yeah, I think let's just crack on, get working and we'll see what's what.
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I am now going to drop Poppy back, head home and crack on with editing.
Synonyms
168
2.3
Continue doing something, especially after an interruption
26
3.9
To keep going with a task even when it is hard
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3.7
Move forward or keep going despite difficulty
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5.8
Start working quickly and with energy
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4.4
To start working hard and seriously after wasting time
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5.0
Keep doing something despite difficulty or others telling you to stop
To work quickly to finish many tasks in a short time
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The particle 'on' carries a clear sense of continuation, which gives learners a cue that the phrase involves persisting with an activity; however, 'crack' does not transparently mean 'continue' in its core senses (more often 'break', 'solve', or 'succeed'), and the combination is informal/British and somewhat idiomatic. Because part of the meaning is signalled by 'on' but the specific sense of 'crack' in this collocation is not fully predictable, a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would likely need exposure to infer the exact meaning.
Etymology
Crack on may come from the image of a whip being cracked to push horses or workers 'on' and make them hurry; the sharp crack plus the idea of moving on makes a clear picture of urging quick action, so today crack on means 'to continue doing something quickly and with energy'.