dish out

verb

1. tr, adverb to distribute
2. dish it out
   to inflict punishment

   he can't take it, but he can sure dish it out

Example Sentences

Virtual Kim swans in every so often to dish out advice like a buxom fairy godmother.

From The Daily Beast

Baron Cohen can certainly dish out embarrassment (see Posh and Becks).

From The Daily Beast

Then, too, asparagus is sometimes served on toast, which is another means of making a more nutritious dish out of this vegetable.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

They will make a dish out of almost any of the herbs of the field, or of birds, beasts, or creeping things.

From Project Gutenberg

Know how to make up a dish out of what was left over from the meals of the day before.

From Project Gutenberg