"come the raw prawn" meaning in English

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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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          "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",
          "text": "Until this dag in a shiny new uniform comes the raw prawn and says I didn′t salute him with proper respect.",
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        "(Australia, informal, intransitive) To attempt to deceive or impose upon (someone)."
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        }
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