above-board vs damn

above-board

adv
  • Honestly; openly. 

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

damn

adv
  • Very; extremely. 

intj
  • Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit. 

noun
  • The smallest amount of concern or consideration. 

  • The use of "damn" as a curse. 

  • A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. 

adj
  • Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody. 

verb
  • To condemn to hell. 

  • To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. 

  • To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal. 

  • To curse; put a curse upon. 

  • To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. 

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