Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) wealth passed down or inherited.
WordNet
n. the inherited wealth of established upper-class families; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth"; "she is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts" [syn: old money]
Wikipedia
The English language expression silver spoon is synonymous with wealth, especially inherited wealth; someone born into a wealthy family is said to have "been born with a silver spoon in his mouth". As an adjective, "silver spoon" describes someone who has a prosperous background or is of a well-to-do family environment, , its having been inherited rather than earned.
Silver spoon is an idiomatic expression in English; to say someone was "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" labels them as one born to a wealthy or aristocratic family who has inherited but not earned their privileged status.
Silver Spoon or variants may also refer to:
Silver Spoon (foaled in 1956) was a multiple stakes winning American Thoroughbred race horse.
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa, set in the fictional Ooezo Agricultural High School in Hokkaido. It depicts the daily life of Yuugo Hachiken, a high school student from Sapporo who enrolled at Ezo fleeing from the demands of his strict father. However, he soon learns that life on an agricultural school is not as easy as he initially believed. Unlike his new classmates, he has no intention of following an agricultural career after graduating, although he envies them for already having set goals for their lives and the pursuit of their dreams.
An anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures aired two seasons between July and September 2013 and January and March 2014 on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. A live-action film based on the manga produced by Toho was released on March 7, 2014. The manga was well received by its Japanese audience while earning itself awards.
Usage examples of "silver spoon".
Y'all been in my place on more'n one occasion, most likely, and I was jest wonderin': at any time did you happen to remove from the premisesfor your own good reasons, naturallya spoon, a little bitty silver spoon, and a colored stick?
In many of the pictures, nothing is depicted but a small silver spoon.
And then, slowly, moved by a wind no one felt, in that unearthly Ouija-board way, the silver spoon began to move, to swing, at first in a small circle but each orbit growing gradually more elliptical until the path flattened into a straight line pointing from oven to banquette.
She fished in the pocket of her voluminous gown, then held up an ornate silver spoon.
Leibniz said, holding up a silver spoon, and then setting it down on the table between them.
Closing the sketchbook, she set it aside, and took the chair opposite me, stirring her tea with a small silver spoon.
She waited, holding the empty cup in one hand and the silver spoon in the other.
The soup is too hot to eat and she idly stirs it with a heavy, engraved silver spoon.
It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.
Just put your silver spoon in the bowl, Responsible of Brightwater.