skin off all dead horses

skin off all dead horses
   to marry your mistress
   A dead horse is something of small value, which it is not worth flogging, although at one time it had had its uses. In obsolete Irish use, to work on a dead horse was to have to complete a job for which you had already been paid, and when the task was done, you were said to have skinned a dead horse.

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