"on a silver platter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908, Pamphlets on Trade Unions - Volume 1, page 56",
          "text": "The plainest and simplest is that it is \"up to\" the automobile workers themselves. Quite obviously, \"nothing is going to be handed to them on a silver platter!\" Their intelligence, courage and solidarity must answer the question which modern industry puts to them.",
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          "ref": "1973, United States Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Near East and North Africa - Issues 878-886, Joint Publications Research Service, page 73",
          "text": "On the other hand, the youth should not wait for an invitation to be active and for readymade programs and plans of actions presented to them on a silver platter. The youth themselves should demonstrate initiative..",
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          "ref": "1990, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report. West Europe, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 41",
          "text": "It is such awkward moves that create frustration within the coalition and, at the same time, present the arguments to the Opposition on a silver platter.",
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          "ref": "2012, Gar Anthony Haywood, It's Not a Pretty Sight, Open Road Media, page 32",
          "text": "Even as the investigator was handing Dartmouth over to him on a silver platter, Goody was whining and complaining, defending himself against the constant and wholly imaginary threat of being taken advantage of.",
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        "too easily, more than one deserves"
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      "qualifier": "being given something",
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        "(being given something) too easily, more than one deserves"
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  "word": "on a silver platter"
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          "ref": "1990, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report. West Europe, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 41",
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