Question

Born with a Silver Spoon in Your Mouth born to wealth, comfort, and privilege

Accepted Answer

Fran always wants the finest, most expensive things. Was she born with a silver spoon in her mouth? A spoon made out of pure silver is expensive. Sometimes a silver spoon is given as a gift to a newborn baby. If a rich baby has many expensive things from the start of life, like a silver spoon (almost as if he or she were born with the spoon in his or her mouth), we can use this well-known idiom to describe that person. The phrase was used by Cervantes, the Spanish writer, in the early 1600s in the book Don Quixote.

Idiom	Born with a Silver Spoon in Your Mouth
Example	Fran always wants the finest, most expensive things. Was she born with a silver spoon in her mouth?
Meaning	born to wealth, comfort, and privilege
Origin	A spoon made out of pure silver is expensive. Sometimes a silver spoon is given as a gift to a newborn baby. If a rich baby has many expensive things from the start of life, like a silver spoon (almost as if he or she were born with the spoon in his or her mouth), we can use this well-known idiom to describe that person. The phrase was used by Cervantes, the Spanish writer, in the early 1600s in the book Don Quixote.

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