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Option 4 : To ease the tension at the meeting, he cracked a joke to break the ice.

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सही उत्तर To ease the tension at the meeting, he cracked a joke to break the ice. है।

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Question:

Choose the sentence in which the idiom "to break the ice" is used correctly.

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He broke the ice with a hammer to reach the fish below.
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She broke the ice of the contract by signing the last page.
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The teacher broke the ice to punish the noisy class.
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To ease the tension at the meeting, he cracked a joke to break the ice.

Correct Answer: To ease the tension at the meeting, he cracked a joke to break the ice.

To break the ice means to do something to relieve tension among strangers. Only sentence (d) uses the idiom in this correct sense.

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