Για τα πιο κυριολεκτικά (μια και το silver spoon τονίζει κυρίως την καταγωγή) μερικά παραδείγματα από βιβλία (εξωγκουγκλικά):
You can also find people who have had everything served on a silver platter, yet nothing is ever good enough to make them happy.
The Inner Path of Light (Kim Michaels, 2003)
the students were unwilling to think for themselves and expected everything served to them on a platter
Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru (Vincent Zigas, 1990)
I think people who have everything served to them on a silver platter are less sensitized to other people
Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender (Language, Power and Social Process, 6) (Walter de Gruyter, 2001)
Someone with your brains, my boy, shouldn't have everything served up to him on a plate, even if it were possible.
Evil Genius (Catherine Jinks)
he was an officer too. He was used to having everything served up to him on a plate -just hand it straight over!
The Naked Pioneer Girl (Mikhail Kononov and Andrew Bromfield)