lie on one's oars

lie on one's oars
(lie (или rest) on one's (или the) oars)
бездействовать, сидеть сложа руки; ≈ почивать на лаврах [этим. мор. сушить вёсла]

This election will pass, and the excitement will die and people will forget about it; and if you forget about it, too, if you sink back and rest upon your oars, we shall lose this vote, that we have polled to-day, and our enemies will laugh us to scorn. (U. Sinclair, ‘The Jungle’, ch. XXXI) — Выборы пройдут, возбуждение уляжется, и народ забудет о них. Но если забудете и вы, если вы успокоитесь и будете сидеть сложа руки, довольствуясь этим успехом, мы потеряем полученные сегодня голоса, и наши враги посмеются над нами.

Business men who had imagined that Roosevelt, after putting through his rapid-fire program of reforms... in the spring of 1933, would rest on his oars were discovering to their dismay that he had no such intention. (F. L. Allen, ‘Since Yesterday’, ch. VII) — Бизнесмены, которые ожидали, что Рузвельт после стремительного осуществления программы реформ... весной 1933 года будет почивать на лаврах, к своему ужасу обнаружили, что у президента были совсем другие намерения.

I'm getting old and it's time I rested on my oars. (DEI) — Я старею, мне пора на покой.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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