What is On The Level?
1.
completely honest and above-board. givin' it to you straight, with no exceptions. straight talk. like a true brother.
is Subway food on the level? I mean, do they cheat on the meat, if you know what I'm sayin'?
2.
synonymous with on the same level. friends who are on the level think similarly and get along well.... when presented with a problem, they might arrive at similar solutions.
me and
holmes are on the level; he knows me better than I know myself.
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3.
Used to desribe someone who is a Freemason (member of the Masonic Lodge or related side-orders). The level (a builders tool used to to "prove" horizontals), in Freemasnory, indicates that all human beings are the equal - that not one person is any better than another.
"I notice you're wearing a masonic pin on your jacket - so you're on the level then?"
