asleep at the switch
Example Sentences
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“Nobody was watching. Everyone was asleep at the switch.”
Americans tend to be asleep at the switch.
From Salon
“They’ve been asleep at the switch,” election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg said.
From Seattle Times
How to say you’ve been totally asleep at the switch of your children’s life without saying it?
From Washington Post
“Regulators were asleep at the switch,” Lawrence J. White, a banking expert at New York University’s Stern School of Business, told my colleague Don Lee.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
