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Good enough   /gʊd ɪnˈəf/   Listen
Good enough

adjective
1.
Adequately good for the circumstances.






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"Good enough" Quotes from Famous Books



... head and he wanted to study for the ministry when they were all living together out on the farm ... You know they used to think that any sort of stuff was good enough to make a preacher out of; but they wanted the good timber for business, and so the old ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... "My hand good enough?" he asked, flipping the creature up so it clung to the back of his gauntlet. "That's how ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... much easier than walking," she said to Uncle John, "that the common car is good enough," and the old ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne

... know," said King Philip impatiently, "I have heard it a thousand times! It has already persuaded me to abandon the duodecimal method and to consign to the severest tortures any one who mentions it in my presence again. My ten fingers are good enough for me. ...
— On Something • H. Belloc

... like wildfire. When the Sopwith Tabloid was first produced, it was unfavourably reported on by those who flew it, and at once fell into disrepute throughout the squadrons. The fact is that the pilots of that time were not good enough for the machine; if they had stuck to it, and learnt its ways, they would soon have sworn by it as, later on in the war, they swore by the Sopwith Camel. A similar ill repute attached itself, like an invisible label, ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh


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