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
So that it was loving-kindness towards man, as well as despair towards God, that gave him strength to resolve that between him and his grandmother all should be above-board from henceforth.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
Your aunt told you nothing but truth; for it is always fair and honest to be above-board, d'ye see.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
We are all going post to what they call eternity, and may as well be above-board while there’s time.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
