N6c

When you are leaving a car outside on a hot day, you might say, “Why don’t you __________ the window a bit, so that it doesn’t get so hot in here?”

This question is new; it was not asked in the 1965–70 survey.

CRACK11
OPEN4
ROLL DOWN2
“CRACK THE WINDOW OPEN, NOT JUST ‘CRACK'”1
PUT THE WINDOW DOWN1
ROLL THE WINDOW DOWN1

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