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in the raw (informal)

naked She often swims in the raw.

See hit a nerve

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I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context Dunstan Cass, setting off in the raw morning, at the judiciously quiet pace of a man who is obliged to ride to cover on his hunter, had to take his way along the lane which, at its farther extremity, passed by the piece of unenclosed ground called the Stone-pit, where stood the cottage, once a stone-cutter's shed, now for fifteen years inhabited by Silas Marner. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context			in the mainstream in the making in the market in the market for in the meantime in the meanwhile in the middle of in the middle of nowhere in the midst of in the money in the mood in the name of in the near future in the neighborhood of in the nick of time in the offing in the open in the palm of hand in the picture in the pink in the pipeline in the poorhouse in the prime of life in the process of in the public eye in the raw in the rear in the red in the right in the right place at the right time in the road in the rough in the running in the saddle in the same ballpark in the same boat in the same breath in the same league in the scheme of things in the second place in the shadow of in the short run in the short term in the soup in the spotlight in the stretch in the strict sense in the swim of things in the teeth of in the thick of it in the toilet			in the offing In the Open In the Open In the Open In the Open In the Open In the Open In the Opinion of the Referee in the opposite scale In The Out World in the palm of hand in the past In the person of in the picture In the Pink In the Pink In the Pink (disambiguation) in the pipeline in the poorhouse in the power of in the presence of In the Presence of Positive Women in the prime of life in the process of in the public domain in the public eye in the public eye in the public eye in the public eye in the public eye in the raw In the Real World in the rear in the red in the red in the red in the red in the red in the red in the red In the Region Of in the right in the right place at the right time in the road in the road in the road in the road in the road In the Rough In the Rough in the round in the round in the round in the round in the running in the running in the running in the running in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle

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