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a flat little stage where dinner performs and gossip gets served piping hot
means A shallow open container for holding or serving food — or, by extension, a particular prepared food, or a juicy piece of gossip.
from From Old English 'disc,' meaning a plate or bowl, borrowed early from Latin 'discus' — a quoit, disc, or flat round plate. That same Latin 'discus' is a remarkably busy ancestor: it also gave us 'disc,' 'disk,' 'desk,' and 'dais,' all sharing the idea of a flat round thing. The food meaning grew naturally from what sat on the plate, and the gossip sense ('dishing the dirt,' 'a real dish') is modern slang, serving rumor as if it were the day's special.
- slang origin
- "dish the dirt" predates cable TV by decades
- satellite kind
- its curve focuses faint signals to one hungry point
- petri fame
- a 1877 lab dish birthed modern microbiology
- word stretch
- means plate, recipe, and attractive person alike
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