cut no ice

Idioms  

1. 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]

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Example Sentences

This argument cut no ice with my parents.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021

"It shows that people really connect with the story, they really think hard about it, but it cut no ice with Dad."

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2018

This cut no ice with the Supreme Court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2015

Crashing and banging saucepan lids, whistle-blowing and rude chants against companies works where years of pamphlets, meetings and earnest debates cut no ice.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2010

My immediate retort that several other texts also pictured guanine and thymine in the enol form cut no ice with Jerry.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson