Idiom of the Day March 31, 2021

📚the tip of the iceberg

✍🏾Meaning

You can say something is the tip of the iceberg when it's just a small part of something much bigger.

❗️For example

🔺The homeless kids who visit us for help are just the tip of the iceberg. There are thousands more we never see.

🔺The internet is huge. What you can find through search engines is just the tip of the iceberg.

▫️Origin

 Metaphorical, related to the fact that most of an iceberg is below water and cannot normally be seen, and the part above water that can be seen doesn't give a clear idea of how big it really is.