here comes the plane

alternative here comes the aeroplane · alternative here comes the airplane

1. Said to encourage young children to open their mouths during spoon-feeding.

alternative here comes the aeroplane · alternative here comes the airplane

1. uncountableA game played while spoon-feeding children to encourage them to eat.

   Play "here comes the airplane" to induce them to open up and eat more

   2014 January 18, Marian Edelman Borden, Ellen Bowers, Vincent Iannelli, The Only Baby Book You'll Ever Need: A Parent's Guide to Everything!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 160

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   She tried to play a game of "Here comes the airplane!" It worked once or twice , but that was all .

   1994, Phyllis Lieber, Gloria S. Murphy, Annette Merkur Schwartz, Grown-up Children, Grown-up Parents: Opening the Door to Healthy Relationships Between Parents and Adult Children, Carol Publishing Corporation, →ISBN

   I also realized he could get me to do lots of things, most of them humiliating, to get him to eat: beg, plead, threaten, bribe, play "here comes the airplane."

   2012 August 1, Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Bull Publishing Company, →ISBN

   'Don't tell me you want to play Here Comes the Aeroplane.' I raise the spoon to make it fly: the mixture eddies and swirls in the air before him.

   2019 October 24, Giuseppe Caputo, An Orphan World, Charco Press, →ISBN