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verb informal

(tr, adverb) to distribute

dish it out to inflict punishmenthe can't take it, but he can sure dish it out

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Virtual Kim swans in every so often to dish out advice like a buxom fairy godmother.
Inside ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’: The Reality Star’s Aspirational App and Vainest Project Yet|Frances McInnis|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Baron Cohen can certainly dish out embarrassment (see Posh and Becks).
Sacha Baron Cohen's 9 Wildest Moments|The Daily Beast Video|July 9, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Then, too, asparagus is sometimes served on toast, which is another means of making a more nutritious dish out of this vegetable.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2|Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
For lack of this in a simple form, he concocted a dish out of vegetables, fruit and oil, which proved to him a great benefit.
Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa|Joel Tyler Headley and William Fletcher Johnson

I set up my typewriter in a corner near a window and dug a gay cushion or two and a chafing-dish out of my trunk.
Wisconsin in Story and Song;|Various
They will make a dish out of almost any of the herbs of the field, or of birds, beasts, or creeping things.
Fred Markham in Russia|W. H. G. Kingston
Know how to make up a dish out of what was left over from the meals of the day before.
How Girls Can Help Their Country|Juliette Low

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dish out

Deal out, dispense, as in He dishes out advice to one and all. This expression alludes to serving food from a dish. ] Colloquial; first half of 1600s]

dish it out. Dispense abuse or punishment, as in He can dish it out with the best of them, but he can't take it. [Slang; c. 1930]

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