Skin off my nose
Posted by R. Berg on January 26, 2001
In Reply to: Skin off my nose posted by Jacobus on January 26, 2001
: : Trying to find where the phrase
: : 'It's no skin off my nose', comes from.
: : any ideas?
Quotation from Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day: "since c. 1925, at the latest . . . It almost certainly comes from boxing or, anyway, fisticuffs. [Someone else whom the author cites here] relates it to the toast, 'Here's (to) the skin off your nose!'"
- Skin off my nose Jacobus 01/27/01