take your eye off the ball
to not give your attention to what you are doing at the time:
If you're a manager, you can't afford to take your eye off the ball for one minute.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not paying attention
- absent
- absent-minded
- absently
- abstracted
- anyhow
- be having a moment idiom
- blind
- drop/lower your guard idiom
- faraway
- glaze
- go back to sleep! idiom
- hasty
- moment
- not take a blind bit of notice idiom
- perfunctory
- remiss
- sideline
- slapdash
- sloppy
- wander
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