serve up (something)

to offer something.

The TV miniseries will be serving up five hour-long programs.

Hitchcock served up a pitch that Perez hit over the fence for a home run.

Filmgoers demand realism, and Lee serves it up without flash or tricks in his latest movie.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of serve up (= to provide food or drink)

• there's no telling
• there's nothing to it
• There's nothing to it.
• There's no time like the present.
• There's no time to lose.
• There's no two ways about it.
• There's one born every minute.
• There's one for the books.
• There's safety in numbers.
• there's the rub
• There's the rub.
• the rest is history
• there's ... to be said for
• there's ... to be said for doing something
• there's ... to be said for something
• There, there.
• There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
• the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• the roof caves in
• the roof falls in
• the rot sets in
• the rough and tumble of
• the rough and tumble of something
• the rub of the green
• the ... rung on the ladder