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词组 asleep at the switch
释义 asleep at the switch

not paying attention.

Health experts were asleep at the switch when the disease began to spread rapidly again.

Etymology: based on the idea of someone going to sleep while they are responsible for operating the switch (= device) that allows a train to move from one track to another

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