be above board

To be legitimate, honest, and/or legal. I expected that big company to try to take advantage of us, but so far all of their dealings with us have been above board. I think these documents are above board, Tom—go ahead and process them.

be above board

to be honest and legal The deal was completely above board.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Madge	MAJ	English
Assumpta	-	Irish
Gadar	-	Armenian
Komang	-	Indonesian, Balinese
Weldon	WEL-dən	English
Jacobina	yah-ko-BEE-nah	Dutch