He's just touching the surface".
"We're not even touching the surface.
"They've been touching the surface," Mr. Patterson said of legislation in Springfield, the state capital.
"It's that sense of somebody touching the surface that I think is greatly retrieved," he said.
But this is just touching the surface, seven out of 10 grassroots sports clubs still need more volunteers.
Even though I'm now deeper in than simply touching the surface, I still feel pretty much in the dark.
"I feel like I've only been touching the surface – I want to come back again and touch it in a deeper way".
Technically -- shown in exquisite detail in Monsaingeon's film -- his fingers really did seem to be touching the surface of a liquid keyboard.
He saw the pool of water, where long strands of seaweed swayed slowly, and he held himself still, his face almost touching the surface.
Brief endnotes expand on the folk traditions — dragons get their name from the ancient Greek, and in some tales are as small as butterflies — if only touching the surface of a fascinating subject.
A seismograph is a pendulum, consisting of a suspended heavy weight attached to a recording device - traditionally a pen touching the surface of a paper chart on a rotating drum.
