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dish out
verb- to distribute UK, 1931
Originally military and therefore used of food or medals. - [Charles] Clarke ought to hold his nose and dish out the cash. — The Guardian, 28 May 2003
- to dispense (abuse) US, 1908
- I began to feel plenty sore, doing a twenty-month stretch (that’s the bit the parole board finally dished out to me). — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 318, 1946
▶ dish out the gravy; dish out the porridge
of a judge, to deliver a severe sentence of imprisonment UK- Cor, he ain’ arf dishin’ aht the porridge. — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, p. 97, 1950
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 46, 1996
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