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scratch the surface

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  1. scratch the surfaceverb

    To barely begin; to see or do only a fraction of what is possible.

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  1. Scratch the Surface

    Scratch the Surface is the third studio album by American hardcore band Sick of It All, released in 1994. It was the band's first major label recording on East West Records, their first venture away from an indie label. Scratch the Surface became Sick of It All's most successful release and produced two singles: "Scratch the Surface" and "Step Down". The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Heatseekers – Middle Atlantic chart and 121 on the UK Albums Chart.

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  1. Scratch the Surface

    Scratch the Surface is Sick of It All's third studio album, released in 1994. It was the band's first major label recording on Eastwest Records, their first venture away from an indie label. Although the album did not reach any of the major charts, Scratch the Surface subsequently became Sick of It All's most successful release, and it produced two singles "Scratch the Surface" and "Step Down". The video of "Step Down" was also featured in the Beavis and Butt-head episode "Premature Evacuation".

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scratch the surface in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scratch the surface in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of scratch the surface in a Sentence

  1. Farhad Alavi:

    You scratch the surface of a lot of goods and they're made with American equipment or American-origin technology, u.S.-origin high technology has a very wide domain, and much of this is considered dual use.

  2. Randolph Bourne:

    Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  3. Ibrahim Hooper:

    It’s been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

  4. Jim Monroe:

    The $ 1.6 billion in payments doesn't really scratch the surface of the losses incurred by producers, we're going to lose a lot of producers through this situation.

  5. Peter Brocklehurst:

    At the moment we don't understand the long-term consequences of this, it's clearly complex and we're only just beginning to scratch the surface.

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