dish out

dish out (third-person singular simple present dishes out, present participle dishing out, simple past and past participle dished out)

1. (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
2. (transitive) To distribute (a thing).
3. (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something.

   She can dish out criticism but she can't take it.

   • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎:

     Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.

4. (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.

• (food): dish up, serve
• (distribute): distribute, give out, hand out, hand round, pass out, pass round
• (figuratively): give out