Idiom
raw deal
Meaning
A situation in which a person is taken advantage of or treated unfairly; a situation in which a person is led to expect something, but receives either nothing or much less than was expected.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He got a raw deal when they fired him without any warning.”
“After working overtime for months without extra pay, she felt she received a raw deal from her manager.”
“The community felt they had been given a raw deal by the local government, which promised new schools but delivered only empty plots of land.”
Examples
simple
“He got a raw deal when they fired him without any warning.”
contextual
“After working overtime for months without extra pay, she felt she received a raw deal from her manager.”
complex
“The community felt they had been given a raw deal by the local government, which promised new schools but delivered only empty plots of land.”
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