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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

A warm, chatty only child, she wasn't born with a silver spoon — she'd worked since she was three, she proudly proclaimed.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2022

If Huygens was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Boyle was born with a canteen of cutlery in his.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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