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Aboveboard   /əbˈəvbˌɔrd/   Listen
adverb
Aboveboard  adv.  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table.






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"Aboveboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... had to come, Greg; every time you and I talked about it we brought the inevitable nearer! Why, you weren't ever at home. Could that have gone on forever? You had no home, no wife, no freedom. I was simply getting sick of the whole thing! Now at least we're all open and aboveboard; all we've got to do is quietly set the wheels ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris

... so open and aboveboard that it hadn't been thought worth while to hide its wording under ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance



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