Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Crack

Every hard head has a crack in it somewhere, like a safety valve, as it were, for the steam.
—Honoré de Balzac

Crack’d your skull through like a bottle.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Cracks like a tortured chord of harmony.
—William Havard

Making the floor crack as if an image of stone were walking over it.
—Victor Hugo

Crackit like a gun.
—Alexander Laing

Cracked as a cocoa-nut bowled by a monkey.
—George Meredith

Crack and bounce like parched peas.
—Charles Reade