raw deal

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From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But one cabinet minister admits, "it is true young people get a raw deal – and youth unemployment is the number one issue, not just for that generation but for their parents and grandparents".

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

By anyone’s standards, Lohan took the raw deal she was given as a child star whose popularity exploded in the brutal celebrity culture of the early aughts and transformed it into an impressive second act.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 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

I think that the Canadian Contingent has had a pretty raw deal.

From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis