take (your) eye off the ball

keep (your) eye on the ball - to give your attention to what you are doing all the time.

If you're a manager, you can't afford to take your eye off the ball for one minute.

• come up in the world
• come upon
• come upon someone
• come upon something
• come up smelling like a rose
• come up smelling of roses
• come up to scratch
• come up up trumps
• come up with
• come up with something
• come what may
• come within an ace of
• come within an ace of doing something
• come within an ace of something
• come within an inch of
• come within an inch of doing something
• come within a whisker of
• come within a whisker of doing something
• come within a whisker of something
• come with the territory
• comings and goings
• commit something to memory
• commit to memory
• commit to memory something
• common ground