Learn English – In search of an idiom expressing “To lay the grapes into somebody’s mouth”

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I am asking if there is a similar idiom like the German expression "Jemanden die Trauben in den Mund legen" – "to lay the grapes into somebody's mouth".

To say: You need to study that for yourself and should not expect that others always give you the fruits of effort.

Best Answer

spoon-feed (ODOL)
verb
[with object]

1.1 Provide (someone) with so much help or information that they do not need to think for themselves.
‘Let them find their own way out of their befuddlement: There is no need to spoon-feed them.’