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A colleague of mine used the phrase "... not sufficient enough ...", and I began to laugh, because I thought it was a joke. He looked puzzled. I replied, "I think that was too much excess." To my great chagrin, he continued to look puzzled.
I used Google find nearly 2.5 million hits for "not sufficient enough" while "too much excess" weighs in at nearly 1.2 million. Both considerable totals.
Perhaps you think these phrases are employed entirely by the feebleminded. I will provide two examples -- one each -- from Fox News. Res ipsa loquitur.
For what it's worth, it's not new. I still have a vivid memory of a junior high school classmate of mine reading me the riot act back in '72, and finishing with "they say a word to the wise is sufficient; well, let's hope this is sufficient enough". It completely undid her deadly-serious rant and it was all I could do not to bust out laughing.
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Perhaps you think these phrases are employed entirely by the feebleminded. I will provide two examples -- one each -- from Fox News. Res ipsa loquitur.
That can be read as Fox News lending pedigree to the usage. On the other hand, it can be like Ben Stiller's comment how his buddy Owen Wilson, being blond, won't do as example to help dispel those myths about blond people.
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