"on the up-and-up" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "US origin, 19th c.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "Before paying any money, make sure the organization is on the up-and-up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, published 2013, page 165",
          "text": "You double-cross me, you son of a bitch. I bet English gave you a sawbuck so he could take her out and give her a jump, and you sit back there collecting fifty bucks from me becuss I'm sap enough to think you're on the up-and-up with me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kate Collins, Seed No Evil, Penguin",
          "text": "“Which you also have to order from his Web site, I'm betting. Are you sure this doctor is on the up-and-up?” “He wrote a book, Abs. Of course he's on the up-and-up.”",
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      "glosses": [
        "Legitimate; honest; upright."
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          "upright",
          "upright"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Legitimate; honest; upright."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "above board"
        },
        {
          "word": "bona fide"
        },
        {
          "word": "on the up and up"
        }
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        "informal"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "legitimate",
          "word": "honesto"
        }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Before paying any money, make sure the organization is on the up-and-up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, published 2013, page 165",
          "text": "You double-cross me, you son of a bitch. I bet English gave you a sawbuck so he could take her out and give her a jump, and you sit back there collecting fifty bucks from me becuss I'm sap enough to think you're on the up-and-up with me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kate Collins, Seed No Evil, Penguin",
          "text": "“Which you also have to order from his Web site, I'm betting. Are you sure this doctor is on the up-and-up?” “He wrote a book, Abs. Of course he's on the up-and-up.”",
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          "honest",
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        "(informal) Legitimate; honest; upright."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "above board"
        },
        {
          "word": "bona fide"
        }
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    {
      "word": "on the up and up"
    }
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "legitimate",
      "word": "honesto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the up-and-up"
}