dish
verb/dɪʃ/
/dɪʃ/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dish | /dɪʃ/ /dɪʃ/ |
| he / she / it dishes | /ˈdɪʃɪz/ /ˈdɪʃɪz/ |
| past simple dished | /dɪʃt/ /dɪʃt/ |
| past participle dished | /dɪʃt/ /dɪʃt/ |
| -ing form dishing | /ˈdɪʃɪŋ/ /ˈdɪʃɪŋ/ |
Idioms
See dish in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydish the dirt (on somebody)
- (informal) to tell people unkind or unpleasant things about somebody, especially about their private life
- She loves to dish the dirt on her sisters.
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dish it out
- (disapproving, informal) to criticize other people
- He enjoys dishing it out, but he really can't take it (= cannot accept criticism from other people).
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