enough is enough

短语
中文释义
英 /ɪˌnʌf‿ɪz ɪˈnʌf/    美 /iˌnʌf‿ɪz iˈnʌf/|/ə-/

英文释义

短语
  1. One should be satisfied; nothing additional is required.
    — Here is enough, I am satisfied, (sayd he). / Since enough is enough, (sayd I), here may we / With that one word take end good, as may be geast: / For folke say, enough is as good as a feast.
  2. Especially as an expression of exasperation: the limit of patience or tolerance has been reached.
    — With every new indignity served upon the United States by the fanatical Fidel Castro comes an immediate, and lasting, impulse to declare that enough is enough.

词源

Compare Dutch genoeg is genoeg, German genug ist genug, Yiddish גענוג איז גענוג (genug iz genug, “enough is enough”).
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