levätä laakereillaan

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

levätä laakereillaan

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

Conjugation[edit]

See levätä; laakereillaan takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence:

possessor singular plural
1st person laakereillani laakereillamme
2nd person laakereillasi laakereillanne
3rd person laakereillansa

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