If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it. That sort of romantic attitude cuts no ice with money-men
(1 syl ) To break the ice To broach a disagreeable subject; to open the way In allusion to breaking ice for bathers (Latin, scindero glaciem; Italian, romper il giaccio ) (Anglo-Saxon, is ) "[We] An' If you break the ice, and do this feat Will not so graceless be, to be ingrate " Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, i 2 Ice-blink (The) An indication of pack-ice or of a frozen surface by its reflection on the clouds If the sky is dark or brown, the navigator may be sure that there is water; if it is white, rosy, or orange-coloured, he may be certain there is ice, for these tints are reflected from the sun's rays, or of light The former is called a "water sky," the latter an "ice sky "