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
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
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
