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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:) --Jerzy•t06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply] The article has
: 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). --Jerzy•t06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply] )
)... (.... 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.--Jerzy•t06:49, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Another possible explanation is that the phrase draws its origins from William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which the antagonistShylock 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.
