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       An icebreaker can be an exercise or game that is meant to introduce people to each other in a fun, relaxedway. If you __31__ party guests who have never met, you might play a game or tell some jokes as an icebreaker.A more formal icebreaker could involve games or songs that help people remember each other’s names, __32__ .In this metaphor, the “ice” is the tension __33__ being in an unfamiliar situation or meeting new people. Theoriginal icebreaker was literally a ship designed to break through ice in frozen channels at sea.

       What’s the origin of the phrase “Break the ice”? The earlier meaning of this phrase, to forge a path forothers to follow, alludes of course to the breaking of ice to __34__ the navigation of boats. The figurative use isquite old and was recorded by Sir Thomas North in his 1579 translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the NobleGrecians and Romans: “To be the first to break the Ice of the Enterprize.” It wasn’t __35__ the latter part of the 17th century that it took on its current meaning of establishing a relaxed relationship in socially awkwardsituations.