英语词汇“strait-laced”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

strait-laced

/streɪtˈleɪst

(also straight-laced)

adjective

Having or showing very strict moral attitudes: his strait-laced parents were horrified...

A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people.
For two decades, the BBC's voice of youth enforced a moral code that your average Victorian aunt would have thought strait-laced.
In the sequel, a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced, conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal, relaxed Fockers.

Synonyms

prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy;

conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, of the old school, narrow-minded

informal goody-goody, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud

rare Grundyish, Pecksniffian

Usage

As an adjective strait means ‘narrow or cramped’ and ‘strict or rigorous’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamiliar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus.

单词	strait-laced
释义	strait-laced /streɪtˈleɪst / (also straight-laced) adjective Having or showing very strict moral attitudes: his strait-laced parents were horrified... A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people. For two decades, the BBC's voice of youth enforced a moral code that your average Victorian aunt would have thought strait-laced. In the sequel, a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced, conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal, relaxed Fockers. Synonyms prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy; conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, of the old school, narrow-minded informal goody-goody, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud rare Grundyish, Pecksniffian Usage As an adjective strait means ‘narrow or cramped’ and ‘strict or rigorous’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamiliar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus. Rhymes barefaced, baste, boldfaced, chaste, haste, lambaste, paste, po-faced, red-faced, self-faced, shamefaced, smooth-faced, taste, unplaced, untraced, waist, waste
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