arrow Idiom, Proverb

narrow escape

an escape with no chance of error He had a narrow escape when he almost fell from his bicycle.

arrows

darts, the equipment and the game itself

narrow down

become narrow；become limited；reduce变窄；缩小；减少
The path has narrowed down a lot since I was last here．自我上次到这里以来，这条路已窄了许多。
The selection committee has narrowed down the original pile of applications to just these five．选拔委员会已把原来的一大堆申请书缩小到这5份了。
The whole question narrows down to who is going to pay for all the damage．整个问题只剩下该由谁来赔偿损失了。
They have narrowed the search down to this area of the town．他们已把搜查范围缩小到该市的这个地区。

straight and narrow

Idiom(s): straight and narrow

Theme: BEHAVIOR

a straight and law-abiding route through life. (Informal. From straight and narrow pathway. Fixed order.)
• You should have no trouble with the police if you stick to the straight and narrow.
• Roger was the kind who followed the straight and narrow every day of his life.

Arrow in the quiver

An arrow in the quiver is a strategy or option that could be used to achieve your objective.

narrow down|narrow

v. phr. To limit within very strict margins. Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few.

narrow escape|escape|narrow

n. phr. An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!

narrow-minded|mind|minded|narrow

adj. phr. Limited in outlook; resistant to new ideas; bigoted. He is generally very open about everything, but when it comes to politics, he is terribly narrow-minded.

harrow

harrow
harrow hell
Archaic to enter hell and rescue the righteous: said of Christ

narrow

narrow
In addition to the idiom beginning with narrow, see straight and narrow, the.

straight and narrow, the

straight and narrow, the
The honest and upright way of living, as in He led a wild life when he was young, but he's been on the straight and narrow for some years. This expression is widely though to come from confusion of straight, “not crooked,” with strait, “narrow,” owing to a misinterpretation of a passage from the New Testament: “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life” (Matthew 7:14). The current phrase dates only from the first half of the 1800s.

straight as an arrow

straight as an arrow
Honest, genuine, as in You can trust Pat with the money; he's straight as an arrow. This simile alludes to the arrow's undeviating flight through the air. [Second half of 1900s]