Has to Be Spoon Feed?

Some students do want to be spoon-fed. ... transitive verb [usu passive] If you say that someone is spoon-fed ideas or information, you mean that they are told about them and are expected to accept them without questioning them.

How do you use spoon-feed in a sentence?

There she spoon-fed him a mouthful of cheesecake. His weight fell and he had to be spoon-fed. Sympathetic stories were spoon-fed to journalists in 1994. They expect to be pampered and spoon-fed most of the time.

Do I have to spoon-feed you?

spoon-feed someone

Fig. to treat someone with too much care or help; to teach someone with methods that are too easy and do not stimulate the learner to independent thinking. ... You mustn't spoon-feed the new recruits by telling them what to do all the time. They must use their initiative.

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