From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishraw dealraw dealUNFAIRunfair treatment Customers are getting a raw deal and are rightly angry. → raw
Examples from the Corpus
raw deal• He'd had a bit of a raw deal.• I just thought Blagg was getting a raw deal.• Still, aren't women getting a raw deal?• These kids think they got a raw deal.• Which shows that it is worth complaining instead of just accepting a raw deal.• We must recognise that they are getting a raw deal and are being victimised by the Government.• Rape on Screen Women tend to get a raw deal from the movies.• Comedy got a raw deal, though Stilgoe and Skellen had a neat song about Alan Titchmarsh. 