In Elliott's case, its five nominees will be paid a $50,000 retainer, a mere tip.
From high street to haute couture, the clothes you see in glossies are the mere tip of the fashion iceberg.
So why is it that Johan Santana was mobbed on the mound in celebration after his 2012 no-hitter, while the unheralded Mike Baxter, whose twisting, running grab kept the no-no intact, got a mere tip of the cap?
And a mere tip of the hat for effort to Gravitas Ventures for its release of Ping Pong Summer, which has a more famous cast (Susan Sarandon, Amy Sedaris) and managed $31,900£18,97777) from 17 sites and therefore a more mediocre per-site average.
Moreover, the nearly $100 billion in judgments, penalties and fees, with nearly $14 billion being obtained just last month, could be the mere tip of the iceberg.
If a parent says anything bad about your potential nanny, dig deeper because it will often be the mere tip of the iceberg.
Here, China's purchase of Smithfield Foods -- the world's largest pork producer -- is a poster child of the problem, but it is the mere tip of a looming iceberg for American farmers and agribusiness.
The book of the same title that accompanies the show has three times as many pictures, but is itself a mere tip-of-the-iceberg look at a body of photography, and a reflected world, that we barely know.
But he adds that there is "a whole body of law surrounding the question of how much more than a mere anonymous tip is enough to search someone, et cetera".
