silver spoon

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Origin of silver spoon

1
First recorded in 1795–1805

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How to use silver spoon in a sentence

  • Had put on her Sunday gown, and had nothing to do now but hold up her head high, and sup her soup out of a silver spoon.

    The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
  • If ever a man was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, George Admaston was the chap.

    A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • Everyone would know him if we put a silver spoon in each hand and hung a silver coffee-pot round his neck.

  • The plates and knives for dinner, a silver spoon or two, and their articles of wearing apparel.

    Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
  • There sat Aunt Jane behind the cut glass bowl of preserved fruit, with the untouched silver spoon at hand.

    The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman