The phrase
"to crack the ice" means to break the tension or awkwardness in a situation by making the first move or starting a conversation in order to make people feel more comfortable.
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Just remember, hearing the sharp pop
of cracking ice is a good thing — it's when the cracking stops that it's time to get out and run.
Transfer ice to a mixing glass and repeat until you've got
enough cracked ice to fill glass.
This will not
only crack the ice between you and your several time to energy frame but will also tell the other celebration.
Some would melt some would stay frozen and in between it would be easier to
crack the ice then when it was totally frozen.
After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little
cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.
They may all wear white socks and chew gum and
crack ice cubes with their teeth, anything to be irritating, but there is, nevertheless, one thing you must like about Texans: when they call something an international event it does not mean they are just inviting some country folk from Pennsylvania or Kentucky to come on down for a long weekend.
The most distinguishing characteristic of these trays was the lever that you had to pull to
crack the ice into cubes.
My Dad use to make ice cream for us when the weather got hot, in an old
fashioned crack ice cream freezer.
Soon after tasting the curry, tears started streaming down her cheeks, and a thoughtful but ill - advised waiter placed a bowl of
cracked ice by her bowl, «and everytime I ate a bowl of the curried whatever - it - was, I followed it with a mouthful of the temporary balm.»
The typical careful description of the item read something like: «Four kinds of rum, eloquently blended and crushed pineapple, served
over cracked ice with a splash of Fanta and coconut shavings; a dreamy potation to enhance any evening; served plain or a la mode in a fresh casaba husk.»
He sees compelling evidence that the moon's massive
tides crack the ice, allowing liquid water to percolate up.
A late scene with the
Pegasus cracking ice fills the rear channels even as the spectacle of it fills the viewer with shame.
-- Donald Hall «Poetry is a rich, full - bodied whistle,
cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.»
Even better are maps like Leningrad where the weight of tanks and the explosions of weapons
literally cracks the ice underneath your enemy, sending them to a watery death.
This brittle layer is formed when the ice is highly compressed, squeezing the air bubbles so much that the pressure inside can
actually crack the ice, making it very difficult to handle.
They hunt them by hanging out at shifting,
cracking ice where air holes allow seals to surface and breathe.
Europa in particular beckons because it seems to have a salty ocean beneath its miles - thick crust
of cracked ice.
Add cracked ice and stir for up to 12 seconds or until you feel the ice start to release and the drink is diluted enough but not too watered down.
That's what the new art and science of bioethics at the dawn of the 21st century had come down to in the end:
No cracked ice for Terri Schiavo.»
Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with
cracked ice.
1 can (8 oz) juice - packed pineapple chunks 1 c fat - free frozen vanilla yogurt 1 lg ripe mango, peeled and chopped 1 ripe banana, sliced Crushed or cracked ice
Fill each glass with
cracked ice.
Fill 2 pint glasses with
cracked ice.
Shake all ingredients with
cracked ice and strain into an old - fashioned glass over ice cubes.
Fill shaker with
cracked ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds.
Plus plenty of orange juice in honor of the great state of Florida, bitters because feelings, and
cracked ice to get some aggression out.
Fill the glass with
cracked ice, add Bourbo...
«Hopefully
this cracks the ice,» Halvorson said.
Shake all ingredients with ice vigorously to
crack the ice, pour into a long glass, serve with straws and some lemon zest — to leave a particularly sour taste.
Although its surface is an airless landscape of
cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.
By DAVID THOMAS AND GERHARD DIECKMANN The relentless progress of the icebreaker through the polar pack ice, accompanied by a cacophony of
cracking ice, makes it easy to forget that you are at sea.
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The sound of
cracking ice is apparently immense, drowning out the quiet hum of the ship's engines, but the temporary break in the peace is well worth it; «How often can you say you've stood on a solid ocean?»
Frozen rivers must also be carefully negotiated — they may support the weight of a tank or other armour initially, but a well - placed artillery shell or demolition charge can
crack the ice and send the vehicle to a watery grave.
Seen from the front, these flat surfaces resemble vintage formica countertops decorated in psychedelic patterns reminiscent of
cracked ice.
Through
the cracked ice of a massive iceberg and bullet hole in a glass window, he comes to the works based on the X-rays of paintings by van Gogh and the Old Masters.
Purely to prime the pump, here's one possible (fictional) way
they cracked the ice, so to speak:
Would we consider paying a penny more at the pump tomorrow to ensure the latest hull designs are available before we start to
crack the ice?
1 oz white tequila 1 oz fresh lime juice 4 oz Sprite or 7 - Up In a tumbler with
some cracked ice, mix tequila, lime juice and Sprite.
In shaker, combine orange juice, cognac, orange liqueur and egg white with
cracked ice.
In shaker, combine cognac, Cointreau and lemon juice with
cracked ice.
1 oz vodka 1/2 oz triple sec 6 oz freshly squeezed orange juice In a tall frosted glass with plenty of
cracked ice, mix vodka, triple sec and orange juice.