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inhouse (adj.)[inhouse 词源字典]: also in-house, 1955, from in + house.[inhouse etymology, inhouse origin, 英语词源]
skin (v.): late 14c., "to remove the skin from" (originally of circumcision), from skin (n.). As "to have (a particular kind of) skin" from c. 1400. In 19c. U.S. colloquial use, "to strip, fleece, plunder;" hence skin-game, one in which one player has no chance against the others (as with a stacked deck), the type of con game played in a skin-house. Skin the cat in gymnastics is from 1845. Related: Skinned; skinning.