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idiomsb can dish it out but they can't take itspoken used in order to say that someone likes to criticize, attack, or make jokes about other people, but they do not like it when other people do the same to them:On the field Pollock can dish it out but he can't take it. If anyone comes within a foot of him he crashes to the turf.I said, "Nina, you love to dish it out, but you sure don't like to take it," and she just walked off.Note You may hear people change the words of this idiom slightly to fit a particular situation. After the fight Sherman told us, "I showed tonight that I can dish it out and I can take it too."
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