ladle out

transitive verb

: to dish out : furnish, give, provide

ladle out two bowls of porridge

—Margaret Kennedy

ladle it out slowly

a more dynamic socialism than the one being officially ladled out

—Mollie Panter-Downes

charm is sometimes ladled out in too much profusion

—C. H. Sykes

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