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Anonymous
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It's 'strait' not 'straight'. I mean, look at the way a straitjacket is arranged. Complicated curves and straps around the back and arms everywhere. There's nothing straight about it.
'Strait' means narrow or confined, and it's a mostly obsolete word. It survives in the word 'straitjacket' as we have seen, describing a most confining garment, and also in the Biblical phrase 'strait and narrow', describing the road to heaven as a very difficult one to find and to follow, compared to the broad and easy path to damnation.
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