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• Above stairs

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• Above suspicion

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• Above the law

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• Aboveboard

  in open sight; without tricks, concealment, or disguise: their actions are open and aboveboard. historical examples he knows that he’s followed, all right, and he’s cagy enough to keep in the open and pretend to be aboveboard. on secret service william nelson taft they were things that didn’t seem—what you would call square and aboveboard. […]

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