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Straight and narrow

noun

The way of proper and honest behavior. Synonym: strait and narrow.

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"Straight and narrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... Raleigh better than that darksome hiding-place communicating with the great chamber in the Tower, pacing from end to end of which he meditated upon his "History of the World." His track would here have been straight and narrow, indeed, and would therefore have lacked somewhat of the freedom that his intellect demanded; and yet the length to which his footsteps might have travelled forth and retraced themselves would partly have harmonized his ...

— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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... wiser and better since he was first introduced to the reader. He has made mistakes of judgment, but whatever of example and inspiration he may impart to the reader will be that of a true and noble boy, with no vices to disfigure his character, and no low aims to lead him from "the straight and narrow path" of duty. ...

— Up the River - or, Yachting on the Mississippi • Oliver Optic

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