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asleep
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Nahai charged DWP with being asleep at the switch and said that even with the unprecedented high temperatures, DWP was caught off guard and failed to adequately communicate the situation to customers.
CITY TOLD OF AGING SYSTEM CONSULTANTS MONTHS AGO WARNED OF DWP ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it.
Seymour Hersh by Barsamian, David / The Progressive
I have fallen asleep at the switch and the train carrying a "Top Secret" cargo is off the tracks in unsecured territory and he is alerting me to stop transmission.
Reflections in church ceilings (excerpt from the unpublished novel: A ... by Fewell, Richard / African American Review
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