Sentences with 'laurels'

Example sentences and phrases with the word laurels and other words derived from it.


« But Braw is not resting on his laurels. "My dream is to set up doctors' banks all over the world," he says. »
« To rest on one's laurels: to abandon oneself after achieving success, to neglect what one has. Example: -You were always the best, but now... I think you're resting on your laurels. »
« The sense of the idiom does not include a sentence (e.g. to come to blows, for example), but it is sometimes equivalent to the proverbial phrase, which does express a sentence (one should not rest on one's laurels). »

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