an elegant sufficiency

an elegant sufficiency

An adequate amount, typically in the context of food. Thanks to all of your generous donations, we have an elegant sufficiency to bring down to the homeless shelter. No second helpings for me, please—I've already had an elegant sufficiency.
See also: elegant, sufficiency
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • elegant
  • sufficiency
  • a gracious plenty
  • plenty
  • gracious
  • gracious plenty
  • swellelegant
  • swellegant
  • off to a running start
  • generous to a fault
References in periodicals archive
It also avoids any intolerant suggestion that one Assembly Government hospitality box should be considered an elegant sufficiency since the bonfire of the quangos.
VIEWPOINT: CAPITAL EYE
As well, there are a detailed index and an elegant sufficiency of chapter footnotes.
John Walter. Guns of the Third Reich