levätä laakereillaan

Finnish

Etymology

levätä (“to rest”) laakereilla (“on the laurels”) -an (3rd person possessive suffix)

Verb

levätä laakereillaan

  1. (idiomatic) to rest on one's laurels (to rely on a past success instead of trying to improve oneself further)

Conjugation

For the conjugation of the verb, see conjugation section og levätä; laakereilla is not inflected, but takes an appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence.

See also
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