on the up and up
Example Sentences
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"I mean, we thought everything was on the up-and-up," he said.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2023
The central character is Ray, who owns a furniture store on 125th Street and believes, in a town where basically everyone’s paying off everybody else, that he’s more or less on the up-and-up.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021
For every bluntly melodramatic moment, there are three or four that are bracingly real, detailing Utah’s disillusionment as he realizes not all of his “helpers” are on the up-and-up.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2021
With 2015’s The Force Awakens, the franchise looked to be on the up-and-up: the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating was 93 percent, and its Metacritic score was 81, earning a “must-see” badge from the site.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2019
He knows better than to ask where it came from, I suppose, especially since he seems to be living on the up-and-up for the moment.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
