Chapter Siguna to Silver Wedding of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Silver Spoon Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. Born to luck and wealth. The allusion is to silver spoons given as prizes and at christenings. The lucky man is born with it in his mouth, and needs not stop to earn it.

“One can see, young fellow, that you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth.”- Longman's Magazine, 1886.

Silver Star of Love (The). When Gama was tempest-tossed through the machinations of Bacchus, the “Silver Star of Love” appeared to him, calmed the sea, and restored the elements to harmony again.

“The sky and ocean blending, each on fire,
Seemed as all Nature struggled to expire;
When now the Silver Star of Love appeared,
Bright in the East her radiant front she reared.”
Camoens: Lusiad, bk. vi.

Silver Streak (The). The British Channel.

“Steam power has much lessened the value of the silver streak as a defensive agent.”- Newspaper paragraph, November, 1885.

Silver-Tongued William Bates, the Puritan divine. (1625-1699.)
   Anthony Hammond, the poet, called Silver-tongue. (1668-1738.)
   Henry Smith, preacher. (1550-1600.)
   Joshua Sylvester, translator of Du Bartas. (1563-1618.)

Silver Trumpet (A). A smooth-tongued orator. A rough, unpolished speaker is called a ram's horn.

Silver Weapon With silver weapons you may conquer the world, is what the Delphic oracle said to Philip of Macedon, when he went to consult it. Philip, acting on this advice, sat down before a fortress which his staff pronounced to be impregnable. “You shall see,” said the king, “how an ass laden with gold will find an entrance.”

Silver Wedding The twenty-fifth anniversary, when, in Germany, the woman has a silver wreath presented her. On the fiftieth anniversary, or GOLDEN WEDDING, the wreath is of gold.