open and aboveboard 的定义
- Also, honest and aboveboard. Candid and fair, without deceit or trickery, as in I'll join you, but only if everything remains open and aboveboard. Both versions of this expression are redundancies, since they use open and aboveboard in the sense of “honest.” The latter word, dating from the early 1600s, comes from gambling and alludes to the fact that card players who do not keep their hands on the table may be suspected of changing their cards under the table.
open and aboveboard 近义词
等同于 out of the closet
更多open and aboveboard例句
- As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.
- Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.
- Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.
- Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
- The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
- It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
- Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
- To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!