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as I tried to suggest above, but seemingly wasn't obvious enough about it, it could be just a truncation of "a dish of gossip."
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Dish is also used in a idiom by teen age girls all the time--She can dish it out, but she can't take it--
used about a someone who is known to gossip, but gets in a huff if any own says anything about her.. the same goes for teasing.. or name calling... any one who acts one way, but expect other to act towards them differently..
the kind of person who says "do as i say, not as i do".
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"She can dish it out, but she can't take it" -- used about a someone who is known to gossip, but gets in a huff if any own says anything about herWhich reminds me of the concluding stanza of an Ogden Nash poem (no surprise there!  ) titled A Little Bit of Gossip Does Me Good: Oh, I do love a little bit of gossip.
But for scandal or for spite there's no excuse!
To think of Mrs. Page
Telling lies about my age!
Well! Her tongue is like her morals: rather loose.
Mrs. Murgatroyd eats opium for breakfast,
And then claims I'm running after Mr. Wood.
That's the sort of vicious slander
That arouses all my dander,
But a little bit of gossip does me good.
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Do people still use dish to mean a pretty woman, as in, "Hey, did you see Patricia? She is such a dish!"?
Y'all got me so confused in my punctuation thread I have no idea where all my question marks and exclamation points go anymore dag nabbit.
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We're not ones to go 'round spreadin' rumors
Really, we're just not the gossipin' kind ~
No, you'll never hear one of us repeatin' gossip,
So you better be sure and listen close the first time!
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An incendiary question: Who gossips more, men or women?  [ducking for cover -e]
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An incendiary question: Who gossips more, men or women?
I see this as a question not of quantity, but of quality.
Men gossip about lofty events, like should Russia invade China, will the New York Jets trade Warren Miletkzy for a top pick running Back, etc., while the gossip of women is more trivial, like, where they will want dinner after what movie, what house to buy, where they will let their husband sit in that new house, etc..
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Chile, you been listenin in on the wrong women, that's a fact.
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Who gossips more, men or women? I would like to proudly report that my brother won the award for biggest gossip in his high school graduating class of 287 people (of whom about half were girls). (Just try having a phone conversation with this guy without being interrupted at least 5 times by call waiting!!!  )
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Chile, you been listenin in on the wrong women, that's a fact. Consuelo is cross-threading to "terms of endearment".
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