rest on your laurels
to be satisfied with your achievements and not to make an effort to do anything else:
Just because you've got your degree doesn't mean you can rest on your laurels.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- content
- life
- nicely
- pride
- rest
- run
- sate
- sated
- satiate
- self-fulfilment
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- that'll do nicely idiom
- thing
- world
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