strait-laced

/streyt-leyst/US // ˈstreɪtˈleɪst //

狭隘的,狭义的,狭路相逢,拮据的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- : tightly laced, as a bodice.
- : wearing tightly laced garments.

adj.prudish

Synonyms

They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
Here, the whiskey-laced meat masters give you their favorite recipes.
Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.
The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.

/streyt-leyst/US // ˈstreɪtˈleɪst //

狭隘的,狭义的,狭路相逢,拮据的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- : tightly laced, as a bodice.
- : wearing tightly laced garments.

adj.prudish

Synonyms

They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
Here, the whiskey-laced meat masters give you their favorite recipes.
Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.
The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.