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deal out

Distribute, as in He dealt out more and more work . [Late 1300s] Also see deal in , def. 3.
deal someone out . Exclude someone, as in I don't have time for this project, so deal me out . This usage is the opposite of deal in , def. 3.

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Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring.

Grizzlies lick them up by the thousands, and the media has made a big deal out of Yellowstone bears eating these bugs.

Somebody on Twitter made a big deal out of the fact that I put the word “deserter” in quotes.

The immune system, in other words, makes a big effing deal out of a little nothing, and we suffer the consequences.

That's why Republicans got a pretty good deal out of the debt ceiling negotiations.

He heard men speak his name in tones of kindness, whose lips on the morrow would deal out curses.

Children were turned into like-faced killers, always on the alert to deal out death.

In the winter of 1883-84 he worked a great deal out of doors, spending many weeks at St. Ives, Cornwall.

In a few hours' time I could shuffle the parts and deal out an entirely new model.

It would have been pleasant to deal out suitable punishment to one who certainly deserved it.

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