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laurels

Ancient Roman for your butt.
Get up off your laurels and go do something!
to rest on one's laurels
She rests on her laurels all the time.
Stop resting on your laurels!
by shapr June 26, 2018
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Resting on your laurels

To present one’s past accomplishments as evidence of present greatness; becoming lackadaisical or passive because of past accolades.
Husband: Bitch, thick chicken is dry af and these potatoes aren’t even cooked!
Wife: I made you beef Wellington with parsnip mousolline yesterday!
Husband: I’m not a misogynist, but damn it, girl! Quit resting on your laurels and step up your game.
by MexiCanTankery March 25, 2019
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Resting on my laurels

Sitting on my ass doing nothing. Laurels were given as honors of achievement as in a crown of laurels for Roman senators. Someone who rests on them is considered lazy.
Man: The floor needs to be mopped.
Woman: (While washing dishes) It's not like I'm resting on my laurels here. I'll get to it when I'm done with this.
by AllHorns May 20, 2014
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Resting on our laurels

It means to be satisfied with your achievements and not to make an effort to do anything else. Satisfied and complacent
Just because you've got your degree doesn't mean you can be resting on our laurels. Wym? It means to be satisfied with your achievements and not make an effort to do anything else. satisfied and complacent.
by B-rizzle September 26, 2019
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John Laurens

Awesome 1754-1782 abolitionist soldier with enough salt to bury Aaron Burr alive. Didn't love turtles that much, but instead everything in nature. Kicked ass, used sass, all of it with extra class. Seriously, that guy was a reckless little shit though. Really wanted to form a black regiment, but never got to do that. Killed himself smartly at an ambush on the 27th of August 1782, and even invited some ladies to watch the battle. Very super totally highly probable that he was in love with Francis Kinloch and Alexander Hamilton.
Basic bi!ch: Omg John Laurens was such a innocent turtle boii and helpless GIRL WITH A DICK cinnamon roll uwu

Laurens: *floats down from heaven, shoots the b!tch, salutes to everyone normal in the room, dissapears*
by John Laurens 42 February 24, 2019
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john laurens

John Laurens is relatable, he's gay and dead
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John Laurens

Though John Laurens may have been gay, he had many other great personality traits. John Laurens was an anti-slave abolitionist alive during the late 1700's. He was interested in nature (mostly plants, birds, and other creatures he often drew) (not just turtles.), medical studies (though he did not study it), and was an aide-de-camp alongside a more popular figure, Alexander Hamilton; the two are speculated to have been in an amorous relationship. John Laurens married Martha Manning out of pity after impregnating her after he broke up with a man named Francis Kinloch, who has was also speculated to have had an amorous relationship with.
John Laurens was a strong man who was not a cinnamon roll.

John Laurens was reckless and got shot multiple times, which eventually led to his death.

John Laurens did not like turtles all that much and ate turtle soup once.

John Laurens was actually really tall and independent and also pretty suicidal. Poor guy.
by AKfreakin47 December 24, 2018
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