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
The big news in the skin game is that it's getting masculine to be feminine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do ye suppose he's goin' to sit down and twiddle his thumbs with that skin game played on him?
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Harte, Bret
