in the raw

in the raw
a) In the natural state; in real life.

He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library.

b) Naked.

He read there in the raw what is perhaps the most amazing page in the history of human development, and in the end he was forced to the conclusion that all his early preconceptions had been at fault, and that it was such exalted, passionate enthusiasts as Vilmorin who had been right.

Syn: in the altogether

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