See come the raw prawn on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From World War II military slang. Construction obscure; suggestions are:\n* From come (“act the part of”) + the + raw (“naive”) + prawn (“(slang) fool”) — thus, to attempt to deceive by feigning ignorance.\n* From come (“(putatively) perpetrate”) + the + raw prawn = something hard to swallow.",
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"text": "1951, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, 1957, Come In Spinner, page 306,\n“ […] Coupla bastards come the raw prawn over me on the last lap up from Melbourne and I done me last bob at Swy.”"
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"ref": "1968, Barrie Humphries, The wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, page 12:",
"text": "\"Don't come the raw prawn! I only gave her a bit of a smack on the chops, we didn't get around to the fair dinkum article!",
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"ref": "1979, Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, page 155:",
"text": "Come on, Dimitri, don't come the raw prawn love! Four quid's the price.",
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"ref": "1995, Australia. Parliament. Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Senate:",
"text": "— I do not suggest that the Minister for the Environment, Sport and Territories, Senator Faulkner, is attempting to come the raw prawn with the Senate on these particular measures, but I do feel that he is trying to use these in an attempt to suggest to the Senate that this is an unintended consequence of the November decision.",
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"ref": "2003, Glen Conrad, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, page 300:",
"text": "“That′s bullshit Norbert. I brought you in to get the straight dope direct from your mate the General. So don′t come the raw prawn with me, matey.”",
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"ref": "2007, Peter Yeldham, Barbed Wire and Roses, unnumbered page:",
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