serve up
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To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve.
- She serves up pizza at nights.
- let these remain upon a slow fire until they are well set, then break over them seven or eight eggs, as for poaching, and add salt and pepper; cook gently until the yolks are set, but not hard, brown with a salamander, and serve up.1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 87:
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- “Are you fond of novels, Mr. Jenkins?” said Miss Angelica Feliciana Potts. “Yes mum, very—especially when they are fried with green peas, and served up with horseredish.”^([sic]) Miss Angelica fainted.1842 May 11, J. W. Warren, editor, The Wetumpka Argus, volume VII, number 7, Wetumpka, Ala.: J. W. Warren, →OCLC, page [3], column 3:
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Idiomatic To provide; deliver; inflict; impose.
- The cloud storage provider serves up server space.
- Kyle serves up heroin in northside.
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- I have a plan to serve up revenge on those who wronged me.
- Mr. Perry is going to serve up an improvement plan that comes from the suits upstairs.
- Run hg serve inside a repository, and in under a second it will bring up a specialized HTTP server; this will accept connections from any client, and serve up data for that repository until you terminate it.2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN, page 85:
- It's inevitable that anything that provides us with such incredible amounts of pleasure and satisfaction is bound to serve up an equal amount of stress.2005, Nicole Beland, Girls Seek Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted.
- He thought he was about to score, but he served it up to the other team.
- West served up another fungo pass which Ulrichs flagrantly stole from Minisi on the 4.1946 September 13, Lee A Gould, “Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47:
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- Livan Hernandez each allowed a major league-high 34 home runs; they were among the 605 different pitchers who served up long balls in 2007.2007, Bryan Tsao, Carolina Bolado, Joe Distelheim, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008, →ISBN, page 172:
- Messi was caught in possession by Frank Lampard, who released Ramires, and the reliable Brazilian served up the perfect cross for Drogba to sweep a left-footed finish past Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes.2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport: