on ice

phrase

1

: with every likelihood of being won or accomplished

2

: in reserve or safekeeping

Examples of on ice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Vidal, in Woods Hole, had bags of DNA samples on ice, ready to be sequenced. — James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Waiting and hoping was a crew that abandoned the ship and was forced to survive for months on ice floes. — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 July 2026

Accordingly, the company has put most of its AI models on ice, Amazon insiders told Bloomberg. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 29 July 2026

The department paid more than $29,000 on ice, fencing and flood prevention for the snow area and $23,000 on the drone show, the documents showed. — Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026

Rhymes for on ice

• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice
• feis
• gneiss