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open and aboveboard



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"China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and always acts in an open and aboveboard manner," the Chinese embassy in London has previously said.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

Said the President: "I intend to conduct an open and aboveboard campaign"�a pledge that would have seemed superfluous in any but a post-Nixon period.

From Time Magazine Archive

This court," he told stale lawyers, "upheld that statute on the representation of the state of Florida that this was an open and aboveboard proceeding.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, that was open and aboveboard," I continued, beginning to fear we had hastily misjudged Miss Sissie Montague.

From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant