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asleep at the wheel en · ADJ
Meanings
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Synonym of asleep at the switch.
Ministers have been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” over threats to the UK’s soft power around the world, as some of their own advisers warned a funding crisis is undermining key institutions promoting British influence.
2025 June 7, Michael Savage, Kiran Stacey, “Ministers accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over UK’s soft power around the world”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2025:
Synonyms
asleep at the switch