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Asleep at the switch

Examples of this idiom:

What the *^%#% is this? We lost ten prospects when she was asleep at the switch.
Tootsie lost her job because she was asleep at the switch.

Meaning:

Not attending to one's job or failing to react quickly; not being alert.

Can be used for: a, alertness, attentiveness, switch

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