dip into

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dip into (third-person singular simple present dips into, present participle dipping into, simple past and past participle dipped into)

1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: dip into.

   Dip the teabag into the cup.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To spend some of a source of money (such as one's savings).
3. (transitive, idiomatic) To read, examine or engage in (something) in a cursory or casual manner.

   Dip into a nice book.

   • 2021 May 7, Maya Phillips, “For Mother’s Day, a Healing Meditation on Mortality”, in The New York Times‎:

     “The Midnight Gospel,” which debuted on Netflix last year, is a show that I dipped into slowly, like a pint of oddly flavored artisanal ice cream: It was tasty yet confounding, more idiosyncratic than my usual preferred flavors, suitable for consumption only when I was in a very specific mood.

   • 2023 March 16, Julia Felsenthal, “An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎:

     Surveying the breadth of Auerbach’s practice and the diverse bodies of knowledge they dip into, I began to think of the artist as a sort of antenna, picking up invisible signals from across time and space (this impression was likely bolstered by the way they wear their eyeliner: antenna-like, drawn an inch or so past each outer canthus).