0 a type of tree, once used for making wreaths to crown winners of races or competitions etc. -- laurbærtre
Many of us feel that we need to look to our laurels with so much talent around and displayed in those speeches.
However, we should not rest on our laurels.
Indeed, foreigners sometimes bade fair to replace posterity as the ultimate tribunal of merit, for they had the advantage of awarding their laurels on this side of the grave.
Despite this clearly positive assessment, we cannot rest on our laurels.
However, as for the other candidate member states, it is too early for them to rest on their laurels.
The moment of heroic affirmation, the laurel-wreathed victory he had long anticipated, soon turns to profound disappointment.
Although formally he releases his daughter to the bridegroom, covertly he invites her to return to him and to the imprisonment of the laurel tree.
Balloonists could not simply rest on their laurels; instead, the sale of launches required, in the years that followed, more effort and justification on their part.
