tip of the ice-cube
tip of the ice-cube n. //
[IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant. Used as an ironic comment in situations where ‘tip of the iceberg’ might be appropriate if the subject were at all important.
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tip of the ice-cubetip of the ice-cube n. // [IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant. Used as an ironic comment in situations where ‘tip of the iceberg’ might be appropriate if the subject were at all important. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |