Meanings of earn laurels in inglês

We feel as if we can rest on our well earned laurels.

But the envious will never allow us to rest upon our hardly- earned laurels.

And the gentlemen tell me you are earning laurels, sir.

While Hamilton wrote and worried and wrestled, Aaron Burr rested on the well- earned laurels of victory.

He had wrestled with progressively conservative giants, professors of colleges-notablyAndrews Norton-andhad won well- earned laurels.

What to it are the hard- earned laurels of the soldier or the exalted reputation of the statesman?

Let us not requite the generosity of our erstwhile foes by an attempt to tarnish their well- earned laurels.

It developed a reputation for stability while the industry was collapsing and earned laurels as one of the survivors of the banking meltdown.

With well- earned laurels as public prosecutor, Douglas resigned, after two years' incumbency of that office, to accept that of Representative in the State Legislature.

"Who could be so presuming as to lay his sacrilegious hand upon the well- earned laurels of a warrior so distinguished as your highness?"