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break the ice

  1. To remove the tension at a first meeting, at the opening of a party, etc.: “That joke really broke the ice at the conference; we all relaxed afterward.â€


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Ms Hewitt, from Cambridgeshire, said she always asked for a smaller speculum to be used and for a double appointment to "break the ice" with the nurse.

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Conversation flowed effortlessly at our table, so much so that we didn’t even pull out the question game that Timeleft provides to help break the ice.

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Using shared interests to break the ice on social networking sites can help users overlook other differences at first.

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Older kids might prefer to break the ice by reaching out with a text or via a social media app, Sweeney said.

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Sacks said he hoped the event would “break the ice†on discussions around Trump and could create a “preference cascade, where all of a sudden it becomes acceptable to acknowledge the truth.â€

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