skin someone for something—(hyperbolic) punish or reprimand a person severely for an offense, etc. (also: skin someone alive for something ):
- I don’t think we should mention this unfortunate encounter to your father. He would skin me for compromising you.
skin someone of something —(sl.) cheat a person of money or property by swindling:
- Kyranians required agile minds to deal with all the caravans…. Otherwise the shrewd traders would have skinned them of all their goods.