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(I shoulda saved this for later w/o trying to get it perfect. ...

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... bcz I can't get it perfect, and right at the moment I can barely be coherent. Here's what I can salvage at this moment:)
--Jerzyt 06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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: According to the economist Joseph Stiglitz, there tends to be a negative correlation between excess "skin" and negative returns. without even a clear claim that that's a direct quote from the public figure (and I doubt its unsuitability rests primarily on whether he's an academic, a shark, or both).
--Jerzyt 06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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)... (.... Ah, the perils of aging...)

... it's nevertheless important to quote directly than to crack crack the ( figurative lobser or clam) shell of his technically-precise double negative. Perhaps on a better day I'll try --- tho others' efforts may be more suited, more timely, or both.--Jerzyt 06:49, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the following paragraph, which appears to be original research. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 07:48, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another possible explanation is that the phrase draws its origins from William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which the antagonist Shylock stipulates that the protagonist Antonio must promise a pound of his own flesh as collateral, to be exacted by Shylock in the event that Antonio's friend Bassanio defaults on the loan to which Antonio is guarantor.