spoon-fed

Related to spoon-fed: undeterred, stirred up, hunkered down, overhyped

spoon-fed

1. Literally, having had food inserted into one's mouth by another person. My mother had to be spoon-fed for a while after her stroke. No, my daughter is off the bottle now—she's spoon-fed.
2. By extension, having been helped excessively by someone else (usually to the recipient's detriment). I'm so sick of these whiny, spoon-fed brats who haven't had to work a day in their lives.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be spoon-fed
  • spoon-feed
  • spoon-feed (someone)
  • blow smoke
  • spoon out
  • be scratching (one's) head
  • be scratching your head
  • spoon up
  • big boned
  • breathe (new) life into (someone or something)
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When it's been spoon-fed by the teacher, that is obvious.
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Contestants are spoon-fed witty answers, and get slagged off in planning meetings - mostly by reluctant host Brydon who plays an angrier, frustrated version of himself.
The dancer who needs to be spoon-fed ..." He lets the thought hang, shrugging his shoulders.
I couldn't exercise or think straight and, sometimes, I had to be spoon-fed since my jaw wouldn't open!
Take the media's reporting on the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which Johnson used to obtain congressional authority to go to war in Vietnam, and which was based almost entirely on information and details spoon-fed by top officials of the government.
This false dichotomy is incessantly invoked by the White House, amplified by Fox News, and spoon-fed to the masses by shameless partisan radio shills such as the uncivil Michael Savage, the bombastic Rush Limbaugh, and the unimpressive Sean Hannity.
Without these questions, there might be little for deep discussion since readers are practically spoon-fed the book's message.
"I think that's a really good tactic because a lot of young people today are spoon-fed and are not allowed to go through the growth stages that come with being responsible for your actions.
Although I shudder at having been spoon-fed Christianity, I've come to appreciate that reciting passages regularly transforms prayer into ritual, carrying us beneath familiar words towards deeper connectedness.
Such convenience accommodates both the lazy ones who want to be spoon-fed and the authorities who view themselves as far more capable than the laity of finding truth.
In this practical day and age, readers of this journal will find Reynolds's volume particularly useful as something to recommend to beleaguered souls who need to know something about naval history but can only accept it spoon-fed and in as few words as possible.
It is speculated that because of their past learning experiences, where the students were excessively "spoon-fed" by their teachers, they failed to develop an autonomous attitude toward their learning.
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