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单词 to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
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to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
c. to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, to be born in affluence or under lucky auspices.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > be in easy circumstances > be born to
to be lapped in one's mother's smock1690
to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth1801
1801 Deb. Congr. U.S. 9 Jan. (1851) 905 It was a common proverb that few lawyers were born with silver spoons in their mouths.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. ii. iii. 75 I think he is born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
1885 E. Gosse From Shakespere to Pope 50 There never was a child so plainly born with the traditional silver-spoon in his mouth as Waller.
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