to give out something, typically in reference to money
Originated from when gangsters in the 1920s went to Italian restaurants and payed money by hiding it in breadsticks. They would then hand out the breadsticks (baked dough) to
people, hence "dough it out".
Some sources claim that Jesus also was the OG (original
gangster) when he multiplied and then doughed out bread to the people. Moses also may have done this earlier with manna, but manna is questionably doughesque, so the credit mostly goes to Jesus. This comes from the Book of Dough that was excluded from the
Bible during the Council of
Trent due to its relation to the Jewish Mafia.