"These worms and virus attacks are just the visible tip of a massive iceberg," said Peter G. Neumann, a computer scientist at SRI International, a research firm.
Sure enough, in the blazing glare, a massive glittering iceberg lay jutting up from the water directly in their course!
If you have read them all, you know that 20 questions make only a tiny dent in a massive iceberg - so don't dwell on what we've missed.
The work of the Lucius Trust is just the tip of a massive iceberg.
For all that these strategies can cause irritation, though, their value lies in the implication - a world away from the commonsense views of Miller and Swift - that the surface meanings of words are only the tip of a massive iceberg.
As I got along, I discovered that what I have read and what I have learned was just the tip of a massive iceberg.
Hunnewell swung the binoculars, scanning a flat restless ocean studded with hundreds of massive icebergs, some broken and jagged, others rounded and smooth, like paper-white geometric solids thrown haphazardly over the blue sea.
I threw one last look at the massive iceberg which we were going to cross.
There's nothing quite like cruising among massive icebergs while watching polar bears and walrus frolic on top of the ice patches (well, for the walrus, it is more like a flounder).
In 1995 a massive iceberg measuring 37 km x 36 km calved from the Larsen Ice Shelf and drifted north.