asleep at the switch

If the chance comes up, let's not miss it by being asleep at the switch.

If they were asleep at the switch, shame on them.

"We need to recognize that the bad old days are coming back and not fall asleep at the switch" he said.

But on this subject, the medical profession is asleep at the switch.

"They're determined not to lose because they were asleep at the switch."

The way not to fall asleep at the switch is to take naps when you need them.

There's the possibility someone was asleep at the switch here."

"You gotta have the right gear or you'll end up asleep at the switch."

Just because you were asleep at the switch is no reason to get on my butt."

Nobody wants to get caught napping, to be found asleep at the switch.

The Lizards hadn't been altogether asleep at the switch after all.

Expecting to find the Lizards asleep at the switch didn't always pay off.

Davison told his mother that the government was "asleep at the switch."

Does he believe in this hocus-pocus himself or is it simply his way of making sure we aren't asleep at the switch?

"Sadly, the country is still paying for the last time the regulators fell asleep at the switch."

The police haven't been entirely asleep at the switch, and you left something of a back-trail yourself.

"But there you were - asleep at the switch again," said the auditor.

"It seems quite apparent that the regulators were asleep at the switch," he said after the hearing.

"You cannot be asleep at the switch when you are looking after the affairs of a public figure," he said.

I think the Secretary of State is asleep at the switch."

To the extent that anyone has fallen asleep at the switch, it's the people."

For too long, the federal government has been asleep at the switch in curbing illegal immigration.

Nobody likes having to explain why he was asleep at the switch, and politicians are no exception.

You may have been asleep at the switch.

"They were asleep at the switch, and we now have produced a bill without the fundamental changes that we need."