skin game
Example Sentences
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I would like to take this opportunity to warn the general public against investment as in its present unperfected state it looks to me like a "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
Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game.
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
There's a fair sample of the skin game the government's running--bets you one hundred and sixty acres against fourteen dollars you can't hold down a homestead for five years.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
