UP-AND-UP


Meaning of UP-AND-UP in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun

Etymology: up (I)

1. : an honest or respectable course — used chiefly in the phrase on the up-and-up

it's on the up-and-up. Go ahead and start your investigation — Erle Stanley Gardner

an occupation of free love considered strictly on the up-and-up — Hendrik de Leeuw

2. : an upward course especially toward an improved state — used chiefly in the phrase on the up-and-up

business was on the up-and-up all through 1936 — Benjamin Stolberg

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.