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
Ademaro	-	Italian
Ewout	AY-vowt, AY-wowt	Dutch
Elina	E-lee-nah (Finnish), e-LEE-nah (Swedish)	Finnish, Swedish
&Aelig;Thelthryth	-	Anglo-Saxon
Erasmos	-	Ancient Greek
Thorsten	TAWR-sten (German)	Swedish, Danish, German