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strait and narrow

Noun

Meaning

the way of proper and honest behavior

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For a good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license. John Middleton Murry

Now the passage being very strait and narrow... I was well nigh quite beat out, by striving to get in. John Bunyan

he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow Source: Internet

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