raw deal

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From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

A youth charity boss suggests: "It's like a guilty secret, the country knows that young people are getting a raw deal but nobody is doing anything about it."

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Sharks have been getting a raw deal from humans for a long time.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024

For The Times, Charles Arrowsmith wrote that the self-help book “is a raw deal, a hollow PR exercise filled with precepts and quips but devoid of self-awareness or humility.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

"It's a raw deal you're givin' us, but I reckon you know yore own business, Wadley."

From Oh, You Tex! by Raine, William MacLeod