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scratch the surface |
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scratch the surface if you scratch the surface of a subject or a problem, you only discover or deal with a very small part of it. Up to now newspaper articles have only scratched the surface of this tremendously complex issue. (usually + of) See also: scratch scratch the surface to deal with only a small part of a subject or a problem. All the payments we've made so far have hardly scratched the surface of the total we borrowed. See also: scratch |
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scratch the surface
