YouTube / iTunes / Spotify / Radio Public / Pocket Casts / Google Podcasts / Breaker / Overcast
Listen to ArtisanEnglish.jp posts & lesson intros here.
Phrase: Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
The average person is not lucky enough to have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
Most of us have to work for everything we have.
Sure, our parents try to give us everything they can, but eventually, there comes a time when we sink or swim on our own for the vast majority of us.
To be born with a silver spoon in your mouth means you were born into a wealthy family.
If someone says you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, they mean you were born into a wealthy family.
The phrase is often used to describe people who have been born into high society or are upper class.
It can also describe people who have never known poverty or hardship.
Usually, when one person says another was born with a silver spoon in their mouth, it’s meant to be an insult or a sign of envy.
However, saying this about someone is probably not fair and more a sign of what the Aussies call tall poppy syndrome than anything else.
Wouldn’t we all like to come from money and have deep pockets?
I mean, we say bad things about rich people all the time, but it’s only because we, deep down inside, secretly wish that we, too, had been born with a silver spoon in our mouths.
It’s a common belief that people with money don’t have to work hard or people born with a silver spoon in their mouths never had to work hard, but that may not necessarily be true.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown, right?
Money brings its own series of trials and tribulations with it.
Becoming rich is one thing, but remaining rich is quite another.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 74.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.