How did the German skat term schneider become connected with the English slang word schneid?

The English slang term schneid, meaning a losing streak, is derived from the German card game skat. In skat, the term Schneider refers to a player who has scored 30 or fewer points. The word Schneider literally translates to "tailor" in German, and the game features several idioms involving tailors, such as aus dem Schneider sein ("to be out of the tailor"), which indicates having scored more than 30 points.12

These idioms likely originated from unflattering cultural stereotypes of tailors as poor or miserable figures. Over time, the term schneider was adopted into other card games, such as gin rummy, to describe a failure to score a single point. By the late 1960s, this usage evolved into the American slang term schneid, which shifted from a specific card-playing context to the broader sports-related meaning of a losing streak.12