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.
| CRACK | 11 |
| OPEN | 4 |
| ROLL DOWN | 2 |
| “CRACK THE WINDOW OPEN, NOT JUST ‘CRACK'” | 1 |
| PUT THE WINDOW DOWN | 1 |
| ROLL THE WINDOW DOWN | 1 |
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