New Deal

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.

Origin

• Deal refers to the distribution of cards in a card game. A new deal results in a new deck, thus a new (supposedly) fair distribution of chances, i.e. figuratively (in the original use) new opportunities in life for everyone.