skin the lamb (English, verb)
expansion: skin the lamb (third-person singular simple present skins the lamb, present participle skinning the lamb, simple past and past participle skinned the lamb)
Senses:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.
tags: archaic
slang
Forms:
form: skins the lamb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skinning the lamb
tags: participle
present
form: skinned the lamb
tags: participle
past
form: skinned the lamb
tags: past