I think I have a clue. Some of you may have heard the term "Mule Skinner" which did not mean someone who removed the skin of mules. It meant a person who handled and worked with mules. I believe the term in question came from an archaic meaning of the verb "to skin" which meant to handle. The expression even makes some sense then.
Jim Gray

There's more than one way to skin a cat!  [Come to think of it, what a
horrible concept.  I wonder where it came from...]

-- Bhaskar



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