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Pictures are said to be skied when they are hung so high as not to be easily seen.
“Bad pictures are hung on the line by dozens and many excellent ones are rejected or skied.”—Truth, p. 431 (September 17, 1885).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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