serve up

Idioms  

1. Dish out food, as in Next they served up some oysters . [First half of 1400s]

2. Provide, as in He served up joke after joke, delighting his audience . [First half of 1600s] also see hand to on a silver platter .

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Example Sentences

Instead, we eagerly swallow impossible fantasies served up on screens that align with our version of how we want or expect the world to be.

From Salon

Mom is serving up barbecue chicken with biscuits and beans from Chicken Tony’s Take-Out.

From Literature

He tried to serve up his own twist on the turkey Christmas dinner - but found it wasn't very popular.

From BBC

And the College Football Playoff, full of the wrong teams, is serving up nothing but blowouts.

From The Wall Street Journal

But in “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” his riotous narrative inspired by his boyhood yuletides in the 1920s, Dylan Thomas serves up a dissenting version of the holiday as a merry mess.

From The Wall Street Journal