English-French translations for scratch the surface

• effleurer
  M. Bowis a lui-même attiré notre attention sur le fait que nous avions à peine commencé à effleurer l’idée de ce que nous pourrions appeler la promotion du bien-être mental. As Mr Bowis himself pointed out, we have only just begun to scratch the surface in terms of what we would call promoting mental wellbeing.

Definition of scratch the surface

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

Examples

• This beginners course only scratches the surface of the subject.

Related words

• scratch
• scratching
• scratched
• scratchy
• scratchpad
• backscratcher
• backscratch
• unscratched
• scratcher
• scratchcard