It is simply to make a modest proposal: enough already.

Therefore, as a government leader, I have a modest proposal.

The task force has made a more modest proposal, according to people familiar with the 30-page report.

I have a modest proposal for the people who "try harder."

So each party offers modest proposals designed to solve some part of the problem.

However, these announcements have been followed up by very modest proposals.

The financial sector will be hit hard even by the reform commission's modest proposals.

Nevertheless, the whole subject deserves a great deal more study, so let me offer a modest proposal.

Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.

Here's a modest proposal: Publish authors who know how to write.