skin game
Example Sentences
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NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the beginning he had higgled and haggled himself to a sad frazzle, even arguing that the skin game is an old Connecticut custom, making us worthy of our reputation as peddlers of wooden nutmegs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cosmetics companies expect that this new version of the skin game could be worth $9,000,000 a year in sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Mukton Lode deal was a clear skin game, Jack, if it is your uncle, and A. B. & Co. got paid up for it—downtown and uptown.
From Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
