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
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
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.
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