Choose the meaning of the idiom "break the ice".

to start a quarrelCorrect answerYour answerto cool something quicklyCorrect answerYour answerto make people relax at the start of a meetingCorrect answerYour answerto break a promiseCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: C

To break the ice is to say or do something that ends the stiff silence when people first meet.

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Cooling something is the literal picture of ice, not what the idiom means.

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Choose the meaning of the idiom "break the ice".

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