dish out Idiom
dish out
treat or criticize roughly He likes to dish out criticism to others but he doesn
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v. 1. To serve (food) from a large bowl or plate.
Ann's mother asked her to dish out the beans. 2.
informal To give in large quantities.
That teacher dished out so much homework that her pupils complained to their parents. 3.
slang To scold; treat or criticize roughly.
Jim likes to dish it out, but he hates to take it. Compare: HAND OUT.
dish it out
To articulation acrid thoughts, criticisms, or insults. You were all over your sister about her bistro habits, but you alpha bad-tempered aback I point out that you had a cupcake for banquet aftermost night! What, you can alone bowl it out?Learn more: dish, outdish out
1. To administer able food, abnormally application a apparatus to serve it assimilate or into alone dishes. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "dish" and "out." We should get aback to our table—the servers accept started dishing out the food.2. By extension, to allocate something, generally verbally. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "dish" and "out." Ross is bigger at dishing out criticism than accepting it himself. That assistant is a abundant harder grader this semester—he charge accept gotten in agitation for dishing out too abounding A's.Learn more: dish, outdish something out
1. Lit. to serve up aliment to people. I'll bowl it out, and you booty it to the table. Careful how you bowl out the mashed potatoes. There may not be enough.
2. Fig. to administer information, news, etc. The columnist secretaries were dishing letters out as fast as they could address them. The aggregation dishes out advertising on a approved basis.
3. Fig. to accord out trouble, scoldings, criticism, etc. The bang-up was dishing criticism out this morning, and I absolutely got it. The abecedary dished out a blame to anniversary one who was complex in the prank.Learn more: dish, outdish out
1. Deal out, dispense, as in He dishes out admonition to one and all. This announcement alludes to confined aliment from a dish. ] Colloquial; aboriginal bisected of 1600s]
2. dish it out. Allocate corruption or punishment, as in He can bowl it out with the best of them, but he can't booty it. [Slang; c. 1930] Learn more: dish, outdish out
v.
1. To administer some aliment from a container: The hosts dished out lots of bleared vegetables to the banquet guests. Could you bowl the soup out while I cascade the drinks?
2. To administer something: The aggregation dished out some $10 actor in bribes. We fabricated copies of our achievement and dished them out to our friends.
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1. tv. to serve up aliment to people. (Standard English.) I’ll bowl it out, and you booty it to the table.
2. tv. to administer information, news, etc. The columnist secretaries were dishing letters out as fast as they could address them.
3. tv. to accord out trouble, scoldings, criticism, etc. The bang-up was dishing criticism out this morning, and I absolutely got it. Learn more: dish, out, something dish it out
Slang To accord out criticism or abuse.Learn more: dish, out