It's dealing openly and aboveboard with treachery and spite.
The cards were still the same; the deck still bore its markings, and the deal was going on without ever a change, except that now the matter of concealment of enmities had turned to an open, aboveboard proposition.
He must carry on this contest in a perfectly open, fair, andaboveboard way, and he simply must not antagonize Oka Sayye.
Straight ahead open and aboveboard for you, my girl!
Here was a woman who was open and aboveboard in her affection.
What, hadn't she and Janet threshed out the whole question of sex in the most open and aboveboard fashion?
They were to be open and aboveboard in urging the right of true lovers to be free from all the shackles of law and tradition.
With the exception of the trailing expeditions through the woods from which canines were debarred, movements had been open, manly, and aboveboard since the master became a boy scout.
The underhand scheme ran counter to the aboveboard principles of the scout law which he had sworn to obey; of that he felt sure.
All this is fair and aboveboard and individual and progressive.
Then why not ride open and aboveboard with me in the hills?
