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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
Word History
Etymology
from the phrase "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth" (born wealthy)
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