흙수저 (heuksujeo)

What it means

1. 1.

   Someone born with nothing to fall back on — the bottom of the spoon hierarchy, and very often a self-description.

Literally: Dirt spoon.

Examples with translations

• 나는 흙수저라서 알바부터 시작했어.

  I had no safety net, so I started out doing part-time work.

• 흙수저가 노력만으로 되는 시대는 지났대.

  They say effort alone no longer gets you anywhere if you started from nothing.

Other forms

Romanised as:

heuksujeo