a little vs above-board

a little

adv

  • Very. 

  • A lot. 

  • Slightly. 

  • A lot of. 

  • To a small extent or degree. 

det

  • A small amount of. 

above-board

adv

  • Honestly; openly. 

adj

  • In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. 

How often have the words a little and above-board occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )