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Today's expression is not nearly enough.

I like this expression, and it's not difficult to understand, but I never hear my students use it.

So, for example, would you like some cake?

Yes.

Here you go.

Oh, that's not enough.

I think you understand.

That is not enough.

That means you want more.

The piece of cake that I gave you was too small.

But what if you say, Do you want some cake?

Yes.

Here you go.

Oh, that's not nearly enough.

That means that you want a lot more.

So the piece of cake that I gave you was way too small. It was tiny. You want a huge piece of cake.

Let's say you have a vacation and your vacation is three days. Is that enough? It's not enough. If you said it's not enough, maybe you want

four days or five days, maybe even six days. But if you said, oh, it's not nearly enough,

then it means you probably want more than a week, maybe two weeks, maybe a month.

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