Definitions
Wiktionary
- idiomatic Honest(ly), sincere(ly), straightforward(ly), fair(ly).
Etymologies
- See the Citations page for examples showing the sense evolution. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“the alcohol-preferring animals showed a reduction in the amount of beta-endorphin in the hypothalamus, and an increase in the blood serum, and alcohol had no effect on the level of beta-endorphin in either the hypothalamus or blood of the non-alcohol-preferring animals.”
“In fact it took a series of experiments in free flight on the level of weightlessness to sell him the idea, otherwise he would have favored finishing the Trip by the simple expedient of crashing headlong into the star at top Speed.”
“David Tennant became a star - exceeding all expectations, and becoming, to a generation of children, an icon on the level of Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.”
“In a room on the level below them, Neto and Korm, one-time Suan Uwin of the Elaigar, waited behind a locked door.”
“THE city of Mobile is situated on the easy ascent of a rising bank, extending near half a mile back on the level plain above; it has been near a mile in length, though now chiefly in ruins, many houses vacant and mouldering to earth; yet there are a few good buildings inhabited by French gentlemen, English, Scotch and Irish, and emigrants from the Northern British colonies.”
““atomism” was bound to make itself manifest on the level of thought as well, even though Ash ` arism was not exclusively Arabic by any means.”
“At the bottom, that is, on the level of the circumjacent plain, I found bones; above these a few stones, brought from a cliff a quarter of a mile off, and from the river one-eighth of a mile off; then a large interval of earth, then a stratum of bones, and so on.”
“On the ground floor these generally open on the level of the door; when in the upper story, as at C, on a ledge or platform, on which the body might be laid to be anointed, and on which the stones might rest which closed the outer end of each loculus.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘on the level’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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old-fashioned
the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, the cat's meow, 23-skidoo, have no opinion of, conk out, have no time for, pitching woo, dressed to the nines, paint the town red, putting on the ritz, have an attachmen... and 47 more...
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blark's Words
fuselage, spelunk, gulch, align, jettison, hoosgow, quisling, synecdoche, gulag, clink, slag, queue and 19 more...
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