straight and narrow

1. 1.

   the way of proper and honest behavior

   “he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow”

   Synonymsstrait and narrow

   Broaderway

Questions about straight and narrow

What does straight and narrow mean?

straight and narrow means "the way of proper and honest behavior".

What is another word for straight and narrow?

Close synonyms include strait and narrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straight and narrow a common word?

straight and narrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.