Timeline for In search of an idiom expressing "To lay the grapes into somebody's mouth"
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:22 | comment | added | can-ned_food | Well, that could vary with context. I didn't mean that the two were equivalent, but that I've heard “fend for yourself” more often in situations which would group it by similarity with “sink or swim” than in situations more like “spoon feed” or so. All about the attitude of the speaker to recipient. The example you gave is a good one that shows a situation with more compassion. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:22 | history | edited | haha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:14 | comment | added | haha | @can-ned_food Of course not. If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts, but if you say it's time to learn to fend for yourself you mean you have to learn to look after yourself without relying on help from anyone else. and it's up to you if you want to rely on help from sb or not. It doesn't mean you forsake them. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | can-ned_food | this one seems more akin to “sink or swim” and the like | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 21:52 | history | answered | haha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |