skin game
Example Sentences
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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
Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game.
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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.
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"How easy it is," I said to myself, "to solve a skin game."
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
