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Meanings of skim the surface in English

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Usage of skim the surface in English
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You can see it when the Dollmen take these long hooks and skim the surface.
Future Lovecraft
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They can only skim the surface even of that.
Studies in Literature
3
That reward is held forth in unfathomable words, of which we can but skim the surface.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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He had so much to do that he could but skim the surface of his task.
Barlasch of the Guard
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I like to skim the surface as I go through life; one gets the cream that way.'
Dwell Deep; or, Hilda Thorn's Life Story
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You simply skim the surface of things.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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If you do it right, you're able to just kinda skim the surface and then resurface pretty quickly.
Wired
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You must maneuver straight in down this shaft, level off in the trench, and skim the surface to-thispoint.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
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Women are no strangers to the art of thinking, but they should only skim the surface of logic and metaphysics.
Emile
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A near view, however, would have shown that Godfrey Chart hadn't taken so much trouble only to skim the surface.
The Marriages
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Shielding my eyes from the gray drizzle, I allow my gaze to skim the surface of the water, where I see nothing special at all.
Daughters of the Nile
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There's enough clearance for us to pass through without skimming the surface.
Unraveled
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She dips into the well whereof Miss Austen skims the surface.
In a Green Shade / A Country Commentary
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They were circling slowly, just skimming the surface of the ground.
Skyrider
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Two big hawks were skimming the surface of the prairie, not far away.
Lonesome dove
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In fact, I'll tell you. Devers's irritation skimmed the surface.
Foundation and Empire
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