手配師が労働者の日当をかすっていた。
The labor broker was skimming off the workers' daily wages.
彼は売上金の一部をかすっていたことがばれて解雇された。
He was fired when it came out that he had been pocketing part of the sales money.
仲介業者に上前をかすられて、手元にはほとんど残らなかった。
The middleman took his cut, and I was left with almost nothing.