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

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

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

We keep company, she and I.  I love her, and she is by way of loving me; but all shall be above-board, I would have her to know. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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)