真的拿湯匙餵
這就是核心畫面本身，沒有轉個彎。
verb · B1
To feed someone with a spoon, especially a baby, or an older or ill person who cannot use a spoon themselves.
用湯匙餵
核心畫面
One person holds the spoon; the other only opens their mouth. The food is already soft and already cut up, and it arrives one small mouthful at a time. Nothing is left for the person being fed to do. Every use of spoon-feed can be traced back to that one picture — the question is only whether what is on the spoon is food or answers.
這樣：一個人拿著湯匙，另一個人只要張嘴。食物已經煮軟、已經切好，一小口一小口送過來。被餵的那個人什麼都不用做。spo…更多收起
這樣：一個人拿著湯匙，另一個人只要張嘴。食物已經煮軟、已經切好，一小口一小口送過來。被餵的那個人什麼都不用做。spoon-feed 的兩個用法都還站在這個畫面上，差別只在湯匙上裝的是食物，還是答案。From the word’s history
Wiktionary records the word as simply spoon + feed, so the modern picture is still the literal one.
Wiktionary 記的來源就是 spoon（湯匙）＋ feed（餵）兩個字合起來。所以這個字今天的畫面，跟它最早的字面意思是同一個。
Wiktionary, entry “spoon-feed” (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:212556072): “From spoon + feed.”
Two branches
把答案餵到嘴邊
把湯匙上的食物換成答案、資訊、步驟，畫面其他部分都不動。
verb · B2
To give someone so much information or help that they never have to work anything out on their own. The speaker usually thinks this is too much help.
填鴨；把答案餵到嘴邊