skin the lamb
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet.
Verb
[edit]skin the lamb (third-person singular simple present skins the lamb, present participle skinning the lamb, simple past and past participle skinned the lamb)
- (slang, archaic, gambling) Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.
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[edit]References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary