Enough is enough

Definition

enough /Ç'nʌf/ indef det (usu used in front of plural or uncountable ns ) ၁။ ~ sth (for sb/sth); ~ sth (for sb) to do sth လံုေလာက္ေသာ။ ေလာက္ငေသာ။ Have you made enough copies? ❍ Is there enough room for me in the car? ❍ We have enough problems already. အခုေတာင္ ျပႆနာေတြက မ်ားလွၿပီ။ ❍ I haven't got enough money to pay for a taxi. ❍ Surely 15 minutes is enough time for you to have a bath. ❍ ( dated ) We have time enough to get to the airport. Compare SUFFICIENT indef pron အေတာ္။ ေတာ္ (ၿပီ)။ Six bottles of wine should be enough. ❍ Is $500 enough for your expenses? ❍ I think I got enough of the questions right to pass. ❍ That's enough of my problems. Let's talk about something else. adv (used after vs adj and advs ) ေက်နပ္ေလာက္ေအာင္။ လံုလံုေလာက္ေလာက္။ အေလာေတာ္။ You're not improving because you don't practise enough. ❍ The house wasn't big enough for us. ❍ She's old enough to make her own decisions. သူ႕ဟာသူ ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့အရြယ္ေရာက္ၿပီ။ ❍ The instructions weren't clear enough for me to understand. ❍ The government did not act swiftly enough. ၂။ အေတာ္အသင့္။ အေတာ္အတန္။ She plays well enough for a beginner. ❍ He's nice enough but he doesn't particularly impress me. ❏ curiously, oddly, strangely, etc enough [ IDM ] ထူးထူးဆန္းဆန္း။ တိုက္တိုက္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္။ Curiously enough, I said the same thing to my wife only yesterday. ❏ enough is enough [ IDM ] ( saying ) ရပ္တန္းကရပ္။ ❏ enough said [ IDM ] ေရွ႕ဆက္မေျပာနဲ႔ေတာ့၊ နားလည္ပါၿပီ။ ❏ have had enough (of sth/sb) [ IDM ] စိတ္မရွည္ ႏိုင္ေတာ့။ စိတ္ကုန္ၿပီ။ After three years without promotion he decided he'd had enough and resigned. ❍ I've had enough of your continual complaints! ❍ I've had enough of you and I don't want to see you again!

Examples

1. He doesn’t have enough experience as a classroom teacher.
2. ‘Would you like something more to eat?’ ‘No thanks
3. I’ve had enough.’
4. [enough of] : There aren’t enough of us to make up a team.
5. [enough for] : Do we have enough knives and forks for everyone?
6. [enough to do something] : Some of the workers don’t earn enough to live on.
7. They have enough uranium to build more than 30
8. 000 bombs.
9. [enough for someone/something to do something] : There wasn’t enough room for us to stretch our legs out.
10. [more than enough] : You’ve had more than enough time to finish the job.
11. [not nearly enough] : Not nearly enough has been done to provide training for new staff.
12. The teachers aren’t strict enough.
13. He wants to join the army when he’s old enough.
14. He told me I hadn’t been working hard enough.
15. Sure
16. things have improved
17. but they haven’t improved enough.
18. [enough for] : The software isn’t good enough for professional use.
19. [enough to do something] : Three days later Thorpe was well enough to leave hospital.
20. Not even her roommate had cared enough to warn her.
21. [enough for someone/something to do something] : The road is barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other.
22. I’ve only been to one of her lectures
23. and that was quite enough for me!
24. [enough of] : I wish you’d stop criticizing – I get enough of that from Harry.
25. [have had enough of something] : I’m leaving. I’ve had enough of all this nonsense!
26. [nice/common/natural/soon etc enough] : Of course she’s upset. It’s natural enough
27. after the way she’s been treated.
28. You’ll meet the rest of the team soon enough.