English Explanatory Dictionary

skin the lamb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The game of lansquenet.
verb
  1. Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.

Word forms

skin the lamb skins the lamb skinning the lamb skinned the lamb

Related words

skinner
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