born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
Wealthy from birth
Born into wealth and privilege.
The silver spoon suggests being fed with fine utensils from infancy—never having to struggle for basic comforts.
The phrase often carries a note of resentment or dismissal: He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has no idea what real work looks like.
Sometimes shortened to silver spoon: a silver-spoon upbringing.
- head startBeginning advantage given
- affluenceAbundance of money
- easy streetState of financial security
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- lap of luxuryState of extreme comfort
inheritance · upper class · high society · blue blood · nobility · entitlement · golden child · nepotism · elite · private school · snobbery · prosperity · indulgence · old money · abundance · endowment · trust fund · aristocracy
born with a silver spoon in one's mouthdirt poor
Extremely lacking in money
underprivileged · disadvantaged · working-class · deprived · impoverished
born with a silver spoon in one's mouthself-made
Successful through own efforts
pulled oneself up by one's bootstraps · self-made man · self-made woman · rags-to-riches · nouveau riche
silver, silvery, silvered, silverware, silversmith, spoons, spoonful, spooned, spooning