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raw deal en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(idiomatic) 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.
The night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain
1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
Forms
Relateds
short end of the stick
Synonyms
rum deal · bum deal