(That Miranda picked up a doorstopper for his beach reading is a bit of a crack in the naive persona he cultivates).
"I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skilful enough at it all, we'll see," he said.
Let us note that despite the instability and chaos caused by Brexit, the utilities still work and the trains still run on time (more or less, anyway. I'm told that there is a bit of a crack-up going on at one railway company).
[For a while] I got into West Adams Prep [a high school run by MLA Partner Schools under contract with the LAUSD], which was a bit of a crack in the armor.
But at the risk of sounding a bit like a cracked record, they were not the owners of the site at the time of the disaster, they were not the operators of the site at the time of the disaster, they were not the owners and operators of the site at the time of the first and full settlement that was then upheld on two separate occasions by the Indian supreme court.
The Oscar-night skit with the Pineapple guys, especially that bit of them cracking up at "The Reader," raised high hopes.
The chairman of the police federation, John Tully, said he was not aware of the exact circumstances, but "to conduct a full-blown misconduct inquiry would appear to be over the top and a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
Mr. Glucroft seemed like the right man for the job, open, friendly, a good listener with a bit of a borscht-belt streak, cracking wise whenever things got a bit dull.
Karlsson's is served in restaurants across the peninsula, often over ice with a bit of cracked pepper.
He criticised her posture, ordered her to have dental cavities filled and could appear horrified at so much as a bit of cracked toenail polish.
