asleep at the switch

Example Sentences

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“Nobody was watching. Everyone was asleep at the switch.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Insurance Commissioner Lara has been worse than asleep at the switch. He’s been in the back rooms making deals with the insurance companies,” Jamie Court, president of the group, said at Tuesday’s event.

From Los Angeles Times

From declining to impeach Trump over obstruction in the Mueller Report to declining to refer to the Justice Department for indictment people who lie to Congress under oath or refuse to honor subpoenas to media putting ratings and rubbernecking over journalism, many have been asleep at the switch.

From Salon

The Trump campaign succeeded in changing the rules “in part because they knew what they were doing and in part because everyone else is asleep at the switch,” Ginsberg added.

From Los Angeles Times

Americans tend to be asleep at the switch.

From Salon