keep on the straight and narrow イディオム
narrow escape
narrow down
The path has narrowed down a lot since I was last here．自我上次到这里以来，这条路已窄了许多。
The selection committee has narrowed down the original pile of applications to just these five．选拔委员会已把原来的一大堆申请书缩小到这5份了。
The whole question narrows down to who is going to pay for all the damage．整个问题只剩下该由谁来赔偿损失了。
They have narrowed the search down to this area of the town．他们已把搜查范围缩小到该市的这个地区。
straight and narrow
Idiom(s): straight and narrowTheme: BEHAVIOR
a straight and law-abiding route through life. (Informal. From straight and narrow pathway. Fixed order.)
• You should have no trouble with the police if you stick to the straight and narrow.
• Roger was the kind who followed the straight and narrow every day of his life.
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v. phr. To limit within very strict margins. Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few.narrow escape|escape|narrow
n. phr. An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!narrow-minded|mind|minded|narrow
adj. phr. Limited in outlook; resistant to new ideas; bigoted. He is generally very open about everything, but when it comes to politics, he is terribly narrow-minded.narrow
narrowIn addition to the idiom beginning with narrow, see straight and narrow, the.
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straight and narrow, theThe honest and upright way of living, as in He led a wild life when he was young, but he's been on the straight and narrow for some years. This expression is widely though to come from confusion of straight, “not crooked,” with strait, “narrow,” owing to a misinterpretation of a passage from the New Testament: “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life” (Matthew 7:14). The current phrase dates only from the first half of the 1800s.
keep on the beeline and narrow
To advance a about cocked way of life; to alone accomplish choices that are advised about and accurately correct. Now that I accept a confidence on my record, I absolutely accept to accumulate on the beeline and attenuated activity forward. My ancestor kept on the beeline and attenuated until the day he died, and I anticipate he regretted never accomplishing annihilation agrarian or abrupt back he had the chance.Learn more: and, keep, narrow, on, straightkeep to, break on, etc. the ˌstraight and ˈnarrow
(informal) alive your activity according to austere moral principles: She’s chock-full bubbler and now she’s aggravating to break on the beeline and narrow.This byword comes from the Bible, anecdotic the aisle to Heaven.Learn more: and, keep, narrow, stay, straight
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