| 单词 | strait and narrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrait and narrow b. figurative and in figurative context. Now archaic after Bible use, esp. as strait and narrow (elliptical), a conventional, limited procedure or way of life; cf. straight and narrow at straight adj. 3a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a convention > a conventional thing, practice, or way of life conventionalism1833 conventionalitya1834 strait and narrow1953 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 6 Gif grace þat þe charite of my lufers be perfit in þe strayt stretis of þi counsails. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vii. 13 Entre ȝe bi the streyt ȝate. a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 296 The way of Christe is the strayte waye. 1600 J. Bodenham Bel-vedére 228 No wise man likes in such a life to dwell, Whose wayes are strait to heauen, but wide to hell. 1681 in J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Epil. There is no Dives in the Roman Hell. Gold opens the strait gate, and lets him in. 1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. Pref. 14 Such who finding the strait way too narrow for them, left it. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ii. 54 The way to life is strait. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer xv. 247 Not that I wandered from the respectable bourgeois strait-and-narrow. 1979 Listener 1 Mar. 322/2 She seems to feel it is rather daring of her to be the great defender of Arnold Bennett's reputation—and I felt she might have risked one or two dashes off the strait and narrow. < as lemmas |
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