skin in the game
10
5.3
- idiom
- Informal
:
compromiso personal
- Investors are more likely to commit if they see that founders have skin in the game.
But paying them it's, it's some skin in the game and they know you're serious.
- But paying them it's, it's some skin in the game and they know you're serious.
- And I'll tell you why is because it makes you it puts your skin in the game.
- So even theology, if it puts a skin in the game, you know, if it makes a prediction could be tested, right?
- It's it's just one because it's made by a Brit is just like, look, got no skin in the game.
- And the reasons are having very little skin in the game and more importantly to me, the game not being my own.
- If it is our child who suffers, that would help our children and the rest of her and show some skin in the game too.
- The current generation wants to always be valued as smart without putting any skin in the game.
- Time spent with each other, a little bit of time invested, a little sacrifice, a little skin in the game.
- I know this is the mom answers, gives advice, but I see the problem as he has no skin in the game.
- I think you're going to see a lot of this class of person that's had his back, but they don't really have any skin in the game.
- So he has he's got some skin in the game to make sure that they get rid of this guy and not not unmask him.
- So much of it is vulnerability really being who you are, really being yourself is having skin in the game.
Examples
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People are natural learners if they have some skin in the game (which we all do here).
Blog text (5) -
Will the receiving organization or authority have enough skin in the game to treat the money seriously?
Blog text (31) -
So we all got equal skin in the game?
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So you gotta have skin in the game to coach here.
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Now we got skin in the game, as they say.
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At least you have skin in the game.
Academic text (2011) -
Why should you have "skin in the game" in that case?
Blog text (17) -
I want the makers to have some skin in the game.
Blog text (30) -
If everyone doesn't have some skin in the game, nobody gives a damn what we make others do.
Blog text (33) -
We talked instead about making sure policyholders had sufficient "skin in the game" to ensure "profitable growth."
Blog text (11)
Antonyms
How Invested
- Informal
10
5.3
715
3.1
43
3.6
295
2.4
123
2.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'skin' (as a metaphor for personal stake) combined with 'in the game' (participation) gives a general hint of being involved, the exact sense of having a personal financial or reputational stake is a metaphorical extension and not directly derivable from the literal words. This makes the phrase partially predictable but ultimately idiomatic enough that a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely not recover the precise meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Skin in the game may come from old hunting: if people hunted an animal, only those who helped would get the skin of the game, so they had 'something to lose'. That's why today the phrase means 'having a personal investment'.