skat

skat

A card game in which three people playing with 32 cards (sevens through aces) attempt earn the highest number of points by winning the trick each round. Of German origin. A friend of mine who grew up in Berlin introduced me to this great game called skat last night. He and his girlfriend play all the time, so they taught me the ropes.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

skat

(skæt)
n. beer. You got any pretzels to go with the skat?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • game is up
  • game is up, the
  • showing
  • a flimflam artist
  • artist
  • flimflam
  • flimflam artist
  • play a joke (on one)
  • play a joke on
  • parlor
References in periodicals archive
To be a member of SKAT, a fighter pilot should be a Qualified Flying Instructor and clocked at least 2,000 hours of flying, of which about 1,000 hours should be on Kiran Mk II aircraft.
Ataka suggests that a meeting of Chukolov with the head of the Regional Unit of the Directorate of National Construction Control confirmed the optic links of SKAT from Nessebar to Sveti Vlas and from Burgas to Sozopol and Primorsko to be illegal and showed that when the proceedings had reached court stage, center-right party GERB had started exercising pressure over law enforcement bodies and the witnesses did not appear to testify.
Saturday SKAT TV released videos of the two incidents, which were published by OffNews.bg <a href="http://offnews.bg/index.php/216425/videokadri-ot-sblasaka-na-volen-i-ekip-na-tv-skat" target="_blank">HERE.
SKAT TV channel is owned by Valeri Simeonov, Siderov's former close ally and even best man at his wedding.
Ataka's leader Volen Siderov will be the anchor of a talk show on Alpha TV, a role that he feels comfortable in from his years as a TV anchor on the Bulgarian cable TV SKAT before he and the SKAT owner Valeri Simeonov fell out in 2009.
The claim was failed by the journalist from the nationalist SKAT TV, Petar Zhekov, who tried the former President for slapping him on September 9, 2009, while he was filming a report about the ceremony commemorating the victims of Communism.
Assailants attacked the Varna office of Bulgarian TV SKAT on 3 February 2010 with a Molotov cocktail, and the head office of TV SKAT in Burgas was the target of a similar attack just one day earlier.
The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO and its partner cable TV channel SKAT have collected 200 000 signatures in support of their demand for a nation-wide referendum on Turkey's EU accession.
In November 2009, 10 municipal councilors in the Black Sea city of Burgas, including the owner of nationalist Skat TV, canceled their Ataka membership and declared themselves independent.
The posters say that the gay parade is being organized by the Bulgarian Socialist Youth, an organization attached to the Bulgarian Socialist Party; "Spartacus", a gay/straight disco club in downtown Sofia which was shut down several years ago, and the RZS party, and with the media support of SKAT TV.
The TV channel SKAT, known for its nationalist programming has been also fined over a political discrimination complaint coming from a municipal councilman form the Black Sea city of Burgas, from the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party.
SEEMO recently condemned the the attack on TV SKAT in Bulgaria and sent a letter to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov over a Blagoevgrad journalist facing threats from the notorious Galevi Brothers.
The Southeast Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the attack on TV SKAT in Bulgaria.