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idiomscratch the surface (of sth)to deal with only a very small part of an important subject:Until now, the Italian cinema has not even scratched the surface of Italian life.We like to think we know quite a lot about schizophrenia, but actually we've only scratched the surface.A Federal Housing Act in 1949 provided money to house the poor, but it only scratched the surface of a very serious problem.
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