| 单词 | skin the lamb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin the lamb ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 232 Skin the Lamb, a game at cards, a very expressive corruption of the term lansquenet. to skin the lamb a. Betting slang. to skin the lamb: (of a bookmaker) to win heavily on a race, esp. as the result of victory by a horse on which no bets were accepted or only long odds offered; (also, of such a horse) to win a race. Now rare.Frequently with the implication of impropriety. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > lose to skin the lamb1842 1842 Sporting Rev. Feb. 108 For he has beat the rest; and sure I am Its coining money, and we'll skin the lamb. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 232 Skin the Lamb, when a non favourite wins a race ‘bookmakers’ are said to skin the lamb. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ O.V.H. II. vi. 115 A carefully roped and bottled animal, that dropped like a meteor on the racing public for the Chester Cup, [and] skinned the lamb for Mr. Bacon. 1873 M. E. Braddon Milly Darrell & Other Tales II. 21 The Ring has got the day, old fellow... They've been skinning the lamb all through this meeting. 1883 Graphic 21 Apr. 410/2 The Ring are enormous winners on the race, the majority having ‘skinned the lamb’. 1903 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. 10/1 At the finish of the Nassau, Gaviota, the outsider of the three horses,..got up in the last stride, and, in the picturesque language of the betting ring, ‘skinned the lamb.’ 1914 A. B. Patterson in Song of Pen (1983) 363 No matter what wins, the bookmaker cannot lose anything, while they will skin the lamb to some tune should an outsider get home. < as lemmas |
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