Skin in the Game

[Neal Whitman]

A 1992 citation from the Corpus of Contemporary American English:

That's right, that if he ran everybody should have some skin in the game,
and maybe $ 5 was a good number.
(CNN_King)

The next attestation in the corpus is from 1999; then they start again in
2001 and are represented from there to 2005. Eight results total.

Neal

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> This phrase is getting quite common in business communications.  I don't
> see anything before 1998, but seem to think the phrase is older.
>
> From Google Books
> Relentless Growth: How Silicon Valley Innovation Strategies Can Work in
> Your ... - Page 51
> by Christopher Meyer - Business & Economics - 1998 - 201 pages
> In the Silicon Valley, people often describe this as "having some skin
> in the game."
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