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词汇 enough-is-enough
释义

enough is enough


phrase
something you say when you want something to stop: 够了,行了,适可而止
Enough is enough - I don't want to argue with you any more.行了行了,我不想再跟你争了。
Our business has been absorbing the price rises, but enough is enough. We can't go on like this.
Nurses have frequently extended their shifts, but now they are saying enough is enough.
We have lived with quarries causing pollution and dust for years, but enough is enough.
Okay, Janice. Enough is enough. No more lying.
See also
enoughdeterminerpronounadverb

enough is enough | American Dictionary


enough is enough


idiom
this must stop:
The play was dull and I decided enough is enough and left early.

Examples of enough is enough


enough is enough
To use a famous phrase, enoughisenough.
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It is a good example of the way in which reservists are disadvantaged and of why they might decide that enoughisenough and leave.
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I have nothing against procedure, but enoughisenough.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I suggest that this is an increase too far—enoughisenough.
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How many meetings will take place before a decision is taken that enoughisenough?
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Somewhere along the road, a line has to be drawn in the sand to say that enoughisenough.
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There seems to be a general feeling that, as regards personal taxation, enoughisenough.
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Unless the people are prepared to say that enoughisenough, such things will continue.
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The time for that has now gone; and enoughisenough.
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They have high bills for heat, light and power and when the rate demands arrive they say that enoughisenough.
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I have to say firmly that enoughisenough.
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After seven years of membership, enoughisenough.
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What emergency measures does he have to prevent the prison officers and the prisoners deciding to say, as they will soon, enoughisenough?
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They are all saying the same thing: enoughisenough.
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It is difficult to know how to intervene and say that enoughisenough.
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