asleep on the job
Example Sentences
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It’s stressful enough without a CPA asleep on the job.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
Reactions to sleeping on the job ranged from sympathy with the pilots' work schedule to shock that they fell asleep on the job.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2022
Other guards were asleep on the job or missing from their posts.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2020
Even if I literally fell asleep on the job, it would ensure that our feeds—each with more than 1 million subscribers—were still full of content.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2015
I wouldn't mind going down to Dad's office and toying with an adding machine or driving nails in packing cases, but I'm sure I'd fall asleep on the job, or something idiotic like that!
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
