be sleeping on the job
be asleep on the job

Weather watch were sleeping on the job, but he'll come to no harm.

Joseph told Dad that his sons were sleeping on the job.

If there were gunners in the house, they had to be sleeping on the job.

It's a remarkable shift in attitudes, particularly since government hasn't exactly been sleeping on the job.

I still don't think he's sleeping on the job.

Maybe that's why this pair of stone lions was sleeping on the job.

Among the violations lodged against the eight officers was sleeping on the job, the official said.

Marie went on to joke she was sleeping on the job.

Freshman reps are sleeping on the job to make a point

"There is no excuse for air traffic controllers to be sleeping on the job.

The man who runs the Duke of Westminster's (left) property company has been sleeping on the job.

You've been sleeping on the job!

The ubiquitous VC and local slicky boys were sleeping on the job.

I was sleeping on the job when Greg Pearce fell from grace

“The senior commanders were sleeping on the job.”

Among the violations cited by the TSA was sleeping on the job

Was sleeping on the job, and I don't think he owned any records other than Radiohead's OK Computer.

He has instituted much-needed reforms for higher education, in spite of the charges made by the incoming administration that he had been sleeping on the job.

Under Serdyukov, the generals were sleeping on the job; you would walk the corridors of the general staff and you could see they were not engaged.

You wouldn't have had to be sleeping on the job to miss it: ' Joanna took a deep breath and shoved her hair away from her face.

He is a Grade 11 bureaucrat who begs the Planet Express crew not to tell its supervisor that he was sleeping on the job.

A suburban New York official wants the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate whether air traffic controllers are sleeping on the job at a local airport.

They encounter the janitor Leroy (Lee Arenberg), and the security guard Walter, who was sleeping on the job (since he is actually Sleepy).

It means embarrassment when important evidence that could easily have been uncovered by the F.B.I. is first unearthed by news organizations because the bureau was sleeping on the job.

"I can see if someone is sleeping on the job," boasts Arup Roy Choudhury, the chairman of NTPC, the country's biggest electricity generator.

Events show that in reality they were asleep on the job.

Most philosophers, it seems, have been asleep on the job for a long time.

The policemen of capitalism have been asleep on the job.

Just like the night before, it seems the Tories had been asleep on the job.

Air India says its investigation rejected the claim that the pilots were asleep on the job.

This scandal has shown the Scottish Government to be asleep on the job.

The truth is that like the Financial Services Authority, we were asleep on the job.

In the past month alone, nine controllers have been suspended as investigations proceed over whether they were asleep on the job.

The grand jury's report does not fail to make note of this, singling out several institutions as having been asleep on the job.

This born-again statist regarded authority as being asleep on the job.

And unless the publicity department is asleep on the job, I'd bet we've been sending it to every media outlet in the galaxy, too.

Regulators had been asleep on the job.

"Catching those lapses is an important reminder that none of us can be asleep on the job," Napolitano said.

Non-executive directors also feel under pressure to be proactive to avoid accusations that they have been asleep on the job.

Mother's Little Boys are asleep on the job," Jazz answered. "

But even though they criticize regulators for being asleep on the job, Republicans still oppose efforts to give government watchdogs more resources or greater oversight.

Our MPs and peers were asleep on the job when they allowed this wretched piece of legislation through.

All this works only because the European Union (EU) is asleep on the job.

"They did have a guard, but he was asleep on the job," Hope answered, her grin there in her tones concealed by the darkness.

She added: "He has been asleep on the job and has not been focused on the issues in his brief."

The blame lies with Labour politicians and the regulator Ofgem, which was asleep on the job until 2010.

"And while some regulators have taken action on scandals like the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, others seem to be asleep on the job."

Israel's Intelligence Agency, theMossad, has a reputation second to none in the world, but last night they appear to have been asleep on the job.

"After the forest sell-off fiasco, this incompetent government has been asleep on the job with ash dieback," she continued.

A reading of the FSA's 12-page summary report suggests that it many ways the regulator was asleep on the job.