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To "wear the bays" is to be crowned with bay laurel leaves - like you see on a lot of Greek statues - to be honored... as a poet, a writer, a sportsman, a politician... whatever.
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"Wear the bays" is an idiom that means to achieve victory or success. It is often used in British literature to convey the idea of achieving glory or winning a competition.

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