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on the level
- Honest, without deception: “We doubted that the offer could be genuine, but it turned out to be on the level.”
Idioms and Phrases
Honest, straightforward, sincere, as in You can believe her—she's on the level . This expression may have come from Freemasonry, where the carpenter's level symbolizes integrity. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
You may not be particularly concerned with the liability of a social media platform controlled by the right-wing billionaire whose free speech maneuvering has not been on the level for years.
Isle of Berk is on the level of Dark Universe and Ministry of Magic, with wood-carved dragon sculptures, dozens of animatronic figures, a devastatingly cute meet-and-greet and a terrific, family-friendly roller-coaster.
There is little equal in music to 22-year-old disruptors on the level of Handel and Boulez.
"All agreements on the level of President Trump are only worth a few pennies on market day" the newspaper concluded, while "Moscow is prepared to make a deal with the US president."
Leaders’ plan for now is to pass a joint blueprint with entirely different instructions for House and Senate committees—and make the eventual hard choices, especially on the level of spending cuts to pursue, down the road.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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