silver spoon

American  

noun

1. spoon.

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Etymology

Origin of silver spoon

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

Mine is empty, the purple remnants of huckleberry shake congealing on the silver spoon.

From Literature

Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Everything here is earned. At private schools the facilities are provided, but here there are no silver spoons, we have to put the work in."

From BBC

“For someone raised with a silver spoon in her mouth you sure don’t act like it.”

From Literature

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

From Salon