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break the ice

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break the ice
to make people who have not met before feel more relaxed with each other. We played a couple of party games to break the ice.
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break the ice
to start a conversation with someone you have not met before. I never know how to break the ice with someone I've just met at a party.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance, so that he may be asked the question upon the other's speech: as Narcissus did, relating to Claudius the marriage of Messalina and Silius.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
About ten men mounted the sides of the Nautilus, armed with pickaxes to break the ice around the vessel, which was soon free.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
So you must be content with giving yourself a dry polish till we break the ice in the well, and can get a bucketful out for the boys.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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