You feel fate has done you another bad turn and you cannot expect to win with these wretched cards in hand. Better give up and see what you can get the next time, you mutter under the breath.
If that’s how you feel, actually you’re not alone. I’ve read stories of people complaining about things like that since ancient times. One such moaner of a man many hundreds of years ago for example played the Chinese “go” chess with another person. This man drew black and made the first move. And it went down hill for him ever since. The long and short of it is, the more pieces they put on the board, the whiter the board looked as almost all the black pieces were “eaten” (taken out), one after another.
Finally, throwing his hands up and conceding the game, our man in question ruefully remarked: “Bad luck – I picked the black pieces to begin with!”
There goes the classical example of the moaner.
Anyways, “raw deal” is an American colloquialism created “circa 1930, from card games (A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Partridge and Beale) and is now used in any situations where someone feels like the afore-mentioned chess man, who feels harshly, especially unfairly treated.
Back to our top example, what does it mean when they ask whether men “get the raw end of the deal” in today’s society when it comes to time at home with their children?
For the Chinese men in the city today, it means this:
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