If wealthy people who acquired it by old money are said to have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth, what of those born with a gold spoon in their mouths? Who are they?
If those who were born into wealthy families are said to have been born silver spoon in their mouths, who would be the people born with a gold spoon in their mouth? Would that be royalty, or someone close to it?
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Perhaps someone like Steve Jobs that earned his own money rather than be born into money would be someone with a gold spoon.
Royalty could be said to be born with a crown on their head.
It’s all becoming clear to me now. Were you perhaps born with a lead spoon in your mouth, @Hypocrisy_Central?
^ I was born with dust in my mouth, I did not even get lead, I was just thinking if the 1%ers were suppose to have a silver spoon in their mouth, why was it not a gold spoon when gold is better?
Gold makes for lousy utensils, it’s too soft.
Just sayin’.
@canidmajor has it right: nobody wants a gold spoon, people want sterling silver spoons.
Gold is not better for making cutlery.
Then they should have gold plated spoons, as far as value and preciousness goes, gold has always beat silver, that is why the crown on the king’s head was gold and not silver.
I have never heard that cliche. The one about a gold spoon that is.
Is that a real saying? I’ve never heard of someone being born with a gold spoon. Way back in the day would it even have made sense to make goldware? Did they have alloys like we do today to strengthen the gold?
Plus, isn’t the silver spoon, the silver baby spoon often given as a gift? My mom and aunt have silver cups from when they were babies.
People whose mothers use their vaginas for utensil storage.
It was traditional when a child was christened for the godparents to give a silver spoon as a gift or as soon afterwards as they could afford one (if they ever could). However, a child born into a wealthy family always received one at the ceremony. Such infants so privileged were said, often enviously, to have been “born with a silver spoon in their mouth,” and the image followed them throughout their lives.
Every cloud has a silver lining
The silver screen
Cross someone’s palm with silver
They’re just sayings, pointless reading anything into them.
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