go narrow
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[edit]go narrow (third-person singular simple present goes narrow, present participle going narrow, simple past went narrow, past participle gone narrow)
- To focus on one thing, person, topic or aspect of a situation.
- The Common Mind. Philip Petitt. 1996.
- this should not be regarded as a good reason for going narrow.
- 2007, Beyond Buzz. Lois Kelly. Pg. 101.
- Going narrow doesn't imply that we don't understand all the issues
- 2010, Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, Mehrdad Baghai., Granularity[1]:
- It's interesting to note that as you “go narrow“ along one of these dimensions
- 2013, Bobby Owsinsky, The Mixing Engineer's Handbook[2]:
- I used to be impressed by a drummer liking what I did, so I pretty much only got a drum perspective, but I've gone wide and I've gone narrow.
- The Common Mind. Philip Petitt. 1996.
- (of a price) To change infrequently.
- Hedging Commodities: A practical guide to hedging strategies with futures ... Slobodan Jovanovic. Pg. 92
- The change between futures and spot prices will either go wide -- expand or diminish -- go narrow
- Hedging Commodities: A practical guide to hedging strategies with futures ... Slobodan Jovanovic. Pg. 92
- (photography) To use a narrow-angle lens to take one or more photographs.
- 2013, David Noton., The Vision[3]:
- Going wide to fit it all in will emphasize the foreground at the expense of the background; going narrow with a long lens will preclude the coloured 'jobbies' clinging to the cliff top that I'm trying not to tread on.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, narrow.