silver spoon
Example Sentences
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Tice, who attended the £16,000 per-term Uppingham School, agreed that he was born "with a silver spoon in his mouth".
From BBC • May 16, 2025
"Some red squirrels have the luck of being born into gentler early environments, akin to being born with a silver spoon," Petrullo said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024
“He’s not someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022
A warm, chatty only child, she wasn't born with a silver spoon — she'd worked since she was three, she proudly proclaimed.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2022
He said since me and my sister were born in this country, we were born with the American Dream, like a silver spoon in our mouths.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
