[Ads-l] skinback

[Wilson Gray]

But there's no problem with the weird-to-me use of the phrase, _a series of
skinbacks_? Is a _skinback_ something other than an act of retracting or
"skinning back" the penile foreskin?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:31 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David Axelrod on CNN:
>
> "It is inconceivable to me that minutes after an Oval Office address in the
> midst of a major crisis, that [sic] you have to engage in a series of
> skinbacks to correct what the nation just heard."
>
> Etymological comment gratuitous?
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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