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  • Nope, not "nuff" said, so here I go: If being a one-term absentee senator from Illinois is inconsequential as for his fitness to be the POTUS, then what he did or did not do in that insignificant role should not matter.

    Obama on Olbermann was much worse than I'd originally thought. Ann Althouse 2008

  • "You know well 'nuff' tain't," retorted the widow, indignantly.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • You'se strong 'nuff' cept your mine's been off wisitin 'somewhar.

    His Sombre Rivals Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Well, I'se made de bes on it, an I'se gwine ter make de bes on it; but if de yearth crack right open heah, as like 'nuff 'twill' fo 'mawnin, I'd jump right down in de crack' fo 'I'd do it ober ag'in.

    The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • It was a surreal night at the Viper Room in Hollywood on Monday, where fans got to see two different Enuff Z'nuff's perform. more

    Day in Rock Report 2009

  • It was a surreal night at the Viper Room in Hollywood on Monday, where fans got to see two different Enuff Z'nuff's perform. more

    Day in Rock Report 2009

  • It was a surreal night at the Viper Room in Hollywood on Monday, where fans got to see two different Enuff Z'nuff's perform. more

    Day in Rock Report 2009

  • Page 111 shouting out "enough!" or, in their barbarous dialect, being as corrupt in language as in morals, "nuff;" which quarter I magnanimously extended them, as unworthy of my farther vengeance, and fit only as subject of penal infliction, at the hands of the offended laws of their country; to which laws I do now consign them: hoping such mercy for them as their crimes will permit; which, in my judgment, (having read the code,) is not much.

    The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

  • "Be simple 'nuff't' tilt the chair an 'get yer legs free by slippin' the rope down over the chair feet," she observed, "An 'all ye hev't' do is have chair arms as isn't glued't 'their pegs, an' ye got yer arms free, too.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Be easy 'nuff't' make th 'table lift if it's light enough, an' rap on it, too. "

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

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