Rate this phrase:3.0 / 1 vote

rest on one's laurels

To rely on a past success instead of trying to improve oneself further.
69 Views
Collection   Edit    

Submitted on September 05, 2012

Translation

Find a translation for the rest on one's laurels phrase in other languages:

आराम करें

월계수에 휴식을 취하다

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to rest on one's laurels

roll one's eyesring one's bellrun for one's liferaise one's handrattle one's cagequeer one's pitchrain on one's paraderaise one's handroof over one's headrock out with one's cock outreckon without one's hostrun for one's liferoll in one's graveput wool over one's eyes

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this rest on one's laurels phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this rest on one's laurels definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "rest on one's laurels." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Dec. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/rest-on-ones-laurels_6444>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    Put the pedal to the ________.
    A steel
    B cretin
    C metal
    D gretel

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ