walk the straight and narrow

Example Sentences

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Your father sort of brought Ed up, you know, Rod, made him walk the straight and narrow way as he has done with many a man.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

The schoolmaster despised as a fool anyone who did not walk the straight and narrow path.

From The Silver Maple by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller