honest and aboveboard

The store was famous for its towering sign displaying the chain’s motto, “On the Square,” a play on words intended to convey that the S. Klein chain was honest and aboveboard.

An absurd and most preposterous notion of being what he calls "honest and aboveboard" leads him to excesses of every kind, and condemns us to daily sorrows and humiliations.

We are going to be honest and aboveboard with you.

It seemed so ridiculous that the three of us couldn’t sit there and unbosom our hearts of what was hidden away in them, that we couldn’t be open and honest and aboveboard and say just what we felt and thought, that we couldn’t quietly talk things out to an end and find where each and all of us stood.

So far as I know I have not done anything which was not square and honest and aboveboard, either where you were concerned, or your mother, or what I believed 280 to be the best interests of the Fair Harbor.