Phrases & SayingsPeople and character
come the raw prawn
Also: don't come the raw prawn with me
Try to deceive or take someone for a fool.
In a sentence
Don’t come the raw prawn with me—I know what happened.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre records raw prawn from 1940 and come the raw prawn from 1942 as an Australian idiom.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia-wide