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level with

   Also found in: Legal 0.01 sec.
level with someone (about someone or something)
Fig. to be straightforward with someone about something; to be sincere or truthful about someone or something. The police encouraged the criminal to level with them about the crime. Level with me, and tell me what you thought of my cake.
See also: level

level with somebody
to tell someone the truth If our leaders don't level with us, we lose faith in our government.
Usage notes: usually said about information that may be unpleasant
See also: level


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He was now on a level with it and could see an apparently unoccupied chamber beyond, and toward this he made his way along a stout branch that swung beneath the opening.
As I had sat meditating upon the future my eyes had been riveted upon the port-hole which was just level with them as I sat.
I mean that the father grows accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son is on a level with his father, he having no respect or reverence for either of his parents; and this is his freedom, and metic is equal with the citizen and the citizen with the metic, and the stranger is quite as good as either.
 
 
 
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