good enough for

good enough for (one)

Sufficient to suit one's needs without needing to be perfect. I hope these snacks are good enough for our guests. This dress is good enough for me—I don't need anything fancy. I just need a place to sleep, so please don't go to any trouble. The sofa is good enough for me!
See also: enough, for, good
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good enough for

someone or something adequate for someone or something. This seat is good enough for me. I don't want to move. I'm happy. It's good enough for me. That table is good enough for my office.
See also: enough, for, good
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in classic literature ?
If we ain't good enough for you, go and procure somebody that is good enough.
"Go along and find somebody that's good enough for you," repeated Mrs.
Guppy's mother (who began to be quite abusive) and took her, very much against her will, downstairs, her voice rising a stair higher every time her figure got a stair lower, and insisting that we should immediately go and find somebody who was good enough for us, and above all things that we should get out.
A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough for her, and she only made sport of them.
All his family wished him to be a clergyman, but he "did not deem himself good enough for it." However, he yielded to their persuasions, and presented himself to his bishop.
What was good enough for her, is good enough for me.
But though this latter view, if she indeed had it, may appear reasonable enough, yet the event did not answer her expectation; for when she was convened before the justice, and it was universally apprehended that the house of correction would have been her fate, though some of the young women cryed out "It was good enough for her," and diverted themselves with the thoughts of her beating hemp in a silk gown; yet there were many others who began to pity her condition: but when it was known in what manner Mr Allworthy had behaved, the tide turned against her.
Her friends evidently thought this good enough for her; and it was good enough.
You will puff her up with such ideas of her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for her.
"They're not good enough for the Premier League, to be honest, bar Aaron Mooy, who is injured.
There is only one thing that affects your earnings and that is what it costs you, and if this benchmark is good enough for MPs then it is good enough for the train driver.
Defensively, United weren't good enough for the goal as they missed two opportunities to clear the ball as the 28-year-old fired the Magpies into the lead.
"His first task is to get the players not good enough for Celtic out and bring in the players that are good enough.
It's not good enough for Linfield, our supporters and it's not good enough for me."
It's not good enough for the club and it's not good enough for me.