narrow door
Slim opening through
A narrow door is a constrained opportunity or difficult passage, often implying that few will pass through.
The phrase echoes the biblical image of the strait gate leading to salvation: Enter through the narrow door, for wide is the gate that leads to destruction.
More broadly, any selective threshold or demanding path: Medical school is a narrow door that many try but few enter.
- slimThin or meager
- passageSegment of text
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- gatewayPoint of access
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
tight · tight squeeze · cramped · entrance · back entrance · alley · portal · wicket · strait · constricted · slender · bottleneck · restricted · biblical · salvation · path · opening · frame
- LukeGospel of Luke, Magnificat, prodigal son, Zacchaeus, Annunciation
- parablesprodigal son, Good Samaritan, mustard seed, lost sheep, sower
narrow doordouble door
Two-panel hinged entrance
grand entrance · wide doorway · garage door · barn door · loading bay
narrow doorgrand entrance
Ostentatious way to appear
main entrance · palace gates · triumphal arch · front door · palace gate
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