See bring one's own hide to market on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Probably from a German proverb, notably adapted by Karl Marx to describe the exploited worker who must sell himself (his own hide) in the labor market; the denotative metaphoric analogy is to bringing animal hides to market, but simultaneously also the self-evident connotative overtones are of chattel slavery and prostitution, in which human corporeality is exploited and personhood is devalued; in the quote below, the word hiding lends both its literal and figurative senses to the parsing: both literal skinning (of an animal) and also flogging and fleecing (of a person, that is, beating and robbing):\n: 1867, Karl Marx, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, Capital, vol. 1 ch. 6:\n:: [T]he possessor of labour-power follows […] , timid and holding back, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but — a hiding.",
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"ref": "2010 March 30, “Murder charge filed in Roodhouse woman's death”, in The Telegraph, Alton, Illinois, retrieved 2019-05-02:",
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"ref": "2019 January 22, “CNN Transcript, \"State of the Union\" broadcast”, in CNN.com, retrieved 2019-04-29:",
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