asleep on the job
Example Sentences
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As this reader discovered, other fiduciaries can’t deal with the stress and are asleep on the job.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
Other guards were asleep on the job or missing from their posts.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2020
The second school of thought says that those who should oversee pension schemes were asleep on the job.
From BBC • May 9, 2016
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
We're a passel of mollycoddles, asleep on the job.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
