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be above board

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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.

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be above board

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

See also: above, board