Strait-laced

Definition

strait-laced /streÇt 'leÇst/ adj ( derog ) စည္းကမ္းႀကီးေသာ။ အရွက္အေၾကာက္ ႀကီး လြန္းေသာ။ My parents are very strait-laced. ❍ have strait-laced ideas about sex.

Examples

1. ‘A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people.’
2. ‘Audiences will love pretty much everyone in the movie
3. from the sexually daring parents to their straight-laced
4. teenaged son to the hunky plumber whose tool kit contains a couple of surprises.’
5. ‘Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive
6. it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite.’
7. ‘Shawn
8. the bridegroom
9. is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest
10. strait-laced coward goes for nothing.’
11. ‘It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic
12. surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.’
13. ‘Straightforward and straight-laced
14. Haeg is not the mysterious type.’
15. ‘Once you turn the political contest into a strict test of personal character and behaviour
16. even the apparently most strait-laced leader is likely to come a cropper in the end.’
17. ‘The straight-laced history of the capital became a focus for dreaming
18. a site for imagining a city which could better shape the lives of its inhabitants.’
19. ‘It gets worse when Ian's straight-laced parents enter the fray.’
20. ‘In the sequel
21. a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced
22. conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal
23. relaxed Fockers.’
24. ‘And yet she's also
25. in a strange way
26. a highly moral person; it's just that she doesn't confuse morality with strait-laced cowardice and want of adventure.’
27. ‘The institution represented apartheid-sanctioned entertainment with the local idiosyncrasy of dual-language
28. Christian parochialism and a straight-laced morality as part of the deal.’
29. ‘Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk
30. businesslike and rather straight-laced woman
31. serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.’
32. ‘To their more gung-ho colleagues in the financial sector
33. this strait-laced group is little more than a regulatory irritant
34. more interested in stopping them making money than helping them.’
35. ‘Far from being strait-laced
36. women in the 1600s were as fashion conscious as today - even if it meant wearing highly revealing outfits.’
37. ‘‘You can be the most straight-laced person in the world but still find stuff like that funny
38. ’ says Robson.’
39. ‘She was very prim and straight-laced looking
40. and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.’
41. ‘‘It was the only erotic program
42. ’ Ananich said
43. recalling how strait-laced television was back then.’
44. ‘‘What I had done was to signal a shift in our mindset to being more relaxed and open-minded
45. and less strait-laced and Victorian
46. ’ he said.’
47. ‘For two decades
48. the BBC's voice of youth enforced a moral code that your average Victorian aunt would have thought strait-laced.’