No one will make cracks about Sudhir. He is trying to improve his English speaking and you guys, instead of helping him, want to drag him down!
The target phrase is: Make cracks about.
Let’s see some more cases of the phrase in use:
- Everybody is making cracks about Rahul Gandhi. People don’t realize he is the future PM of India.
- The boss didn’t like it when you made a crack about his bald head. You should be careful, you are no longer in college.
- Lalit is the butt of jokes in his college. Everybody makes a crack about him.
- Stop making cracks about the broken lift. Think about how can we get it repaired.
- They were making cracks about the principal but they didn’t know he was just behind the door. Needless to say, all of them were suspended for a week.
- He was fired for making a crack about his boss’s wife. They told him it was due to official reasons.
Make a crack means crack a joke. So, if you or someone makes some humorous smart comment about something – you have made a crack at it.
Let’s close with some more examples:
- Do you realize that making cracks about someone’s skin color, disability or ethnic group is insensitive and offensive?
- You can only sit here the whole day and make cracks about everything in the world. When was the last time you did something worthwhile.
- He is a loser. He only makes cracks about everyone. Ask him, ha she done anything for the students?
- Mr minister, it is not the time to make cracks about anti corruption crusaders. It is the time to take some action against those involved in scams otherwise people will lose all faith on the government.
- Priyanka was hurt because you made cracks about her boyfriend.