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on the level

Builder's tool meaning honest and fair; used in trades and masonry.

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?"

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