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born with a silver spoon

ADJECTIVE
fortunate
Synonyms
STRONGEST
affluent encouraging fortuitous happy healthy helpful lucky profitable prosperous successful wealthy well-off
WEAK
advantageous auspicious blessed bright charmed convenient favorable favored felicitous flourishing gaining get a break golden hopeful in luck in the gravy on a roll opportune overcoming promising propitious providential rosy sitting pretty sunny side thriving timely triumphant victorious well-to-do
Antonyms
STRONGEST
destitute disadvantageous failing hopeless lacking losing needy poor unfortunate unlucky unprofitable unsuccessful wanting
WEAK
adverse sad unhappy untoward upset

Example Sentences

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I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Tice, who attended the £16,000 per-term Uppingham School, agreed that he was born "with a silver spoon in his mouth".

From BBC • May 16, 2025

"Some red squirrels have the luck of being born into gentler early environments, akin to being born with a silver spoon," Petrullo said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

In the informercial, Springer referred to the quote and talked about wanting to reach out to “regular folks … who weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

And I’d rather work for something than be born with a silver spoon in my mouth any day!

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones