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skin game
noun as in confidence game
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I suppose it's some parental promise she's made, or some skin-game buyer has been through here and threw a wrench in the gears.
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And because grafters, shilabers, and skin-game artists follow circuses, the public thinks these are a part of it.
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If I ever want to work any skin game I'll go out of the place where all my friends are.
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Ye tried to kill a thousand-dollar bird by a skin-game, and I'll have it out of your hide.
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"Th' fur trade ain't th' only skin game, young feller," he softly said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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