Whats meant by ''breaking the ice'' ?

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Answer 1

To start a conversation

Answer 2

"Breaking the ice" is just a general statement people use when someone in a crowd or a more personal one on one situation talks first. Have you ever been around people and it felt very uncomfortable b/c no one was saying anything. Then someone says "Hey what cha think about them Giants?" or "What about this weather we're haven?" something like that? That's considered breaking the ice.

Answer 3

Breaking the Ice means to reduce or eliminate tension in a social situation.

You can break the ice with a new professor by making a compliment about his class, for example

Or break the ice with a first date, with a cute joke or sweet gesture.

Answer 4

Break the ice = Be the first person to speak.

Answer 5

"Breaking the ice" is an idiom, or, a slang saying. It comes from a name of a kind of ship called an icebreaker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker

Any activity that "helps" to get something started or loosened up, like a way to make people at a party feel more relaxed so that they can start to enjoy themselves, is called an "icebreaker". Click on this link to read about a kind of icebreaker activity that helps people learn how to be a team:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker_%28facilitation%29
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Ice+Formation

Answer 6

I think it should be called "melting the ice." What it means is a warming up - a way to get comfortable with someone to open the ways for further communication.

Answer 7

Here we call it breaking wind at the North pole they call it breaking the ice, cause it's so cold.

Answer 8

Breaking the silence.

Answer 9

breaking the silence
shortening the distance between 2 pple

Answer 10

Breaking the awkard silence between two people.