be dealt a bad hand
get dealt a bad hand

The sad fact is that Obama was dealt a bad hand.

It was a fund for children who have been dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own.

When being dealt a worse hand would have led to a better result, we say that our timing is off.

Papandreou and his team know they were dealt a bad hand.

Pitino was dealt a bad hand in his first season.

President Bush was dealt a bad hand by others.

Lydia is a middle-aged woman who was dealt a bad hand in life right from the beginning.

I believe that he´s been dealt a bad hand.

"I don't look at it as I've been dealt a bad hand now.

I think that she was dealt a bad hand," Peggy told me.

The dreamy game strategist has been dealt a bad hand.

"He's been dealt a bad hand by me," Karl said.

Analysts say South Korea has been dealt a bad hand.

"We are a very reputable company and we were dealt a bad hand."

"Investors were dealt a bad hand by corporate con men who stacked the deck against them."

He was dealt a bad hand, but he always maintained a real positive attitude throughout all of it.

"Many were dealt a bad hand in that they or someone in their family is ill.

But if McCain was dealt a bad hand, experts say, he often played it poorly.

"Just because you're dealt a bad hand don't mean you're going to lose.

No matter how innately smart you may be, it’s very hard to win if you are dealt a bad hand.

Oberschneider, who voted for Obama in 2008 but not in 2012, says the president was dealt a bad hand.

As a group they could hardly have been dealt a worse hand – they are the most stricken community in Britain.

Irvington may have been dealt a bad hand, but state officials partly blame the local government for making Irvington's problems worse.

Tragically, those who hope for a deal could not have been dealt a worse hand than the Obama-Netanyahu combination.

Mr. Davis, a Democrat and career politician, was dealt a bad hand when he took office in 1999.

But unfortunately for her she got dealt a bad hand.

She had hope but then she got dealt a bad hand.

Everyone gets dealt a bad hand occasionally.

"Five or six months ago, you might have said, 'Corzine, he's working hard, but he got dealt a bad hand of cards.'

You thought Somali pirates got dealt a bad hand by being blasted with Britney Spears" "Oops! ... I Did It Again"?