on the jar in English
open slightly, ajar, not closed tight (of a gate, door, etc.)
Use "on the jar" in a sentence
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1. She screwed the cap back on the jar.
2. I can still see the deep red, almost purple, cherries and the shiny gold cap on the jar.
3. Ajar (adv.) "slightly open, neither open nor shut," 1718, also on a jar, on the jar, perhaps from Scottish dialectal a char "turned a little way," earlier on char (mid-15c.) "on the turn (of a door or gate)," from Middle English char "a turn," from Old English cier "a turn" (see chore)