skin game
Example Sentences
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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
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
The big news in the skin game is that it's getting masculine to be feminine.
From Time Magazine Archive
NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was playing some fellows from the camp a skin game.
From The Prospector by Connor, Ralph
