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
If I give ye that twenty thousand you'll throw it away in the first skin game in 'Frisco, and hand it over to the first short card-sharp you'll meet.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
