dish
noun
an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
had been dishing
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past perfect progressiveof dish.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He liked to joke he had not "made the cut" when Mr Clegg had been dishing out ministerial jobs in 2010.
From BBC ● May 23, 2017
In response, Ms. Whitman said Mr. Brown’s tax strategies and environmental ideas augured more of what the Schwarzenegger administration had been dishing up.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2010
In France, savoring the spectacle of Americans having to take what they had been dishing out for 132 years, radio, TV and the press gave the story unprecedented coverage.
From Time Magazine Archive
