silver spoon

noun

: wealth

especially : inherited wealth

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In the video, the actress recreated the scene with a silver spoon and green Jell-O, perfectly mimicking her younger self as the treat shook in her hand. —

Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024 She’s handled the tropes about her billionaire family status the whole of her tennis life, as if that silver spoon is the one that makes everything else turn into a rainbow. —

Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 See George Wallace force-feeding Mulaney very vanilla cake with a giant silver spoon and crossing everyone’s boundaries, minus Richard Kind’s (true love). —

Vulture Staff, Vulture, 13 May 2024 And celebrities publicly popping the silver spoon out of their children’s mouths comes against the larger backdrop of a fascination with nepo babies. —

Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for silver spoon