英文成語:
Policeman 1: Why didn't you catch that speeder? He must have been doing a hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. 你幹嘛沒逮那個超速者?他應該飆到150了。
Policeman 2: I was asleep at the wheel. 我疏忽了。
新聞英文成語:
asleep at the wheel (idiom) 坐視不管
Why was the police asleep at the wheel? 警方何以坐視不管?
fall asleep at the wheel (idiom) 懈怠
Are the Red Sox in the driver’s seat? You bet they are, though we must now wonder if they are falling asleep at the wheel. 紅襪是否仍居領先地位? 他們當然是的,不過,我們想知道他們是否懈怠。