an ice-breaker: An activity which helps people who have not met before to feel more relaxed and comfortable with each other.
As an ice-breaker, we wrote an interesting fact about ourselves on a piece of paper. The teacher read out all the facts, and we had to guess which person had written which fact.
to cut no ice with someone: To fail to have an influence on someones beliefs or actions.
She made a lot of excuses for her bad behaviour, but they cut no ice with me.
to put something on ice: to ice something: to be on ice: These idioms have the same meaning: to stop doing something temporarily, with a plan to finish or complete it later.
The plans for the new building have been put on ice until next year. The plans for the new building have been iced until next year. The plans for the new building are on ice until next year.
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