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on duty
Idioms and Phrases
At one's post, at work, as in The new nurse was on duty that evening , or The watchman was fired because he was drunk on duty . [Mid-1600s] The antonym, off duty , means 鈥渘ot engaged in one's work,鈥 as in Captain Smith was much more amiable when he was off duty . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Even the death penalty isn't off the table - not just for murder or mutiny, but for damaging an oil or gas pipeline or a sentry caught sleeping on duty.
As part of its policing operation for the 2024 Carnival, the Met had around 7,000 officers on duty, drawn from local policing teams as well as specialist units, with a total of around 14,000 officer shifts across the whole event.
The organisers, Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, have said they use "experts from all areas of event organisation" and had 3,300 stewards on duty in 2024 to help manage crowds.
Over a three-day period in 2023, Ms Baskwill - who was based at Bridgwater Police Station - was found to have spent nearly nine hours browsing through shopping websites while on duty.
A police detective who pretended to work from home and spent hours browsing online shopping sites while on duty has been fired.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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