take one's eye off the ball
отвести глаза от чего-либо, упустить
The mother took her eye off the ball for only a second, and the child fell into a puddle.
Другие идиомы:
- take (someone or something) off (someone's) hands
- taken aback
- taken for dead
- take up (space or room)
- take out (someone)
- take (someone) under one's wings
- take in (clothes)
- take (something) by storm
- take to (someone or something)
- take (something) out on (someone or something)
- take no stock in (something)
- take the Fifth
- take a spill
- take umbrage at (something)
- take a bow