BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE’S MOUTH, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Born rich: It. aver la pera monda (= to have his pear ready pared, RAY).
1830. BUCKSTONE, The Wreck Ashore, i. 2. Mag. A branch of the aristocracy, and to be one of that order means a man born to a good place; or, as we say in the vulgar tongue, WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH.
