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
For your sake as well as hers, everything must be above-board.
From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
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.
He declar'd that he would make no difference or distinction in the Price of his Wines, but would be above-board with all Mankind.
From The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, fl. 1732
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
