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level with

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level with someone
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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