be above-board
Example Sentences
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Summary: - So, here we have someone going out of her way to be above-board and is banned on the slimmest of justifications.
From Forbes • Jan. 10, 2012
We are all going post to what they call eternity, and may as well be above-board while there's time.
From New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis
In purchasing secondhand from young ladies like yourself it is essential that everything should be above-board and quite correct.”
From The School Queens by Meade, L. T.
They didn't dare to be above-board about it on account of Uncle James.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by Raine, William MacLeod
I saw the play was to be above-board.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
