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/Sounds like "dohr" (as in "door") + "MEER" (as in "me") + "seh" (as in "set") + "EHN" (as in "egg") + "LOHS" (as in "loan") + "low" + "REH" (as in "red") + "lehs" (as in "let")/

Meaning

To rest on your laurels: getting too comfortable after past successes and letting your effort slide. In Spain, whoever dormirse en los laureles risks losing everything they earned because they stopped working with the same intensity that got them there.

Examples

Don't get complacent, the competition never takes a day off.

He had a great first quarter and then let his foot off the gas, and the next one was terrible.

Regional synonyms

A small child, usually mischievous, restless, and who won't stop making noise. Comes from the Nahuatl 'itzcuintli' (dog) and is one of the most Mexican words that exist.