skin the lamb

== English == === Noun === skin the lamb (uncountable) (obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet. === Verb === 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. ==== Related terms ==== skinner ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary