“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: / Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Bible
“Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.”
“In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.”
“find themselves in dire financial straits.”
Ed Whitfield
“It shows the dire straits the prosecution's case is in,”
Todd Peterson
“It shows the dire straits the prosecution's case is in.”
“I am more worried about a conflagration in the East China Sea than in the Taiwan Strait.”
Dan Blumenthal