asleep at the switch

瞌睡虫昏睡的人昏睡熟睡中

asleep at the switch 的定义

  1. Also, asleep at the wheel. Inattentive, not doing one's job, as in At the critical moment the watchman was asleep at the switch and only called the fire department when it was too late. This term came from 19th-century American railroading, when it was the trainman's duty to switch cars from one track to another by means of manually operated levers. Should he fail to do so, trains could collide. It was later transferred to any lack of alertness. The wheel in the variant is a steering wheel; similarly disastrous results are implied.

asleep at the switch 近义词

asleep at the switch

等同于 heedless

asleep at the switch

等同于 off-guard

更多asleep at the switch例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
  5. The Daily Beast spoke to a jubilant League on Tuesday about the behind-the-scenes battle to get The Interview to movie theaters.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.
  8. The sun shone and the birds sang, and the day was beautiful without when she at last fell asleep again.
  9. He lifted his head, looked around him, and was just going to switch off the light, when he noticed the open book on his table.
  10. Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.