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Have no effect, make no impression, as in That excuse cuts no ice with me . This term predates modern refrigeration, when ice was obtained by cutting it from a large block with a sharp tool. [Late 1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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