"silver spoon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Rooted in 18th century European table-setting customs, when diners would bring their own utensils to the meal. To distinguish themselves from serfs and peasants, members of the land-owning classes often used silver cutlery, whence the term silverware.",
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      "expansion": "silver spoon (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival (lyrics and music), “Fortunate Son”, in Willy and the Poor Boys",
          "text": "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand / Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wealth passed down or inherited."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "inherited",
          "inherited"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Wealth passed down or inherited."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Australian",
            "English"
          ],
          "word": "silvertail"
        },
        {
          "word": "silver fork novel"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金鎖匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "gam¹ so² si⁴",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金锁匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金湯匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jīn tāngchí",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金汤匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金鑰匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jīnyàoshi",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "金钥匙"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "wealth passed down",
          "word": "hopealusikka"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "silver spoon"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Rooted in 18th century European table-setting customs, when diners would bring their own utensils to the meal. To distinguish themselves from serfs and peasants, members of the land-owning classes often used silver cutlery, whence the term silverware.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Australian",
        "English"
      ],
      "word": "silvertail"
    },
    {
      "word": "silver fork novel"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival (lyrics and music), “Fortunate Son”, in Willy and the Poor Boys",
          "text": "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand / Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wealth passed down or inherited."
      ],
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        [
          "Wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "inherited",
          "inherited"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Wealth passed down or inherited."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金鎖匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "gam¹ so² si⁴",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金锁匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金湯匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jīn tāngchí",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金汤匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金鑰匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jīnyàoshi",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "金钥匙"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "wealth passed down",
      "word": "hopealusikka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "silver spoon"
}