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Break the ice
//ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs// verb
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Verb
- 1 To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality. idiomatic
"Including a few fun details in large group introductions can be a great way to break the ice."
- 2 To introduce a conversation. idiomatic
"If it be so ſir, that you are the man Muſt ſteed us all, and me amongſt the reſt: And if you breake the ice and do this ſeeke, Atchieve the elder: ſet the yonger free, For our acceſſe, whose hap ſhall be to have her, will not so graceleſſe be, to be ingrate."
- 3 To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning. idiomatic
- 4 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, the, ice.
Etymology
By application of the metaphor that strangers are socially separated by ice.
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