dish out
(tr, adverb) to distribute
dish it out to inflict punishment: he can't take it, but he can sure dish it out
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How to use dish out in a sentence
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 | THE DAILY BEASTBaron Cohen can certainly dish out embarrassment (see Posh and Becks).
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 SciencesFor 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 JohnsonI 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. KingstonKnow 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
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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]
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