Someone who is not attentive is in this condition at the auto's steering mechanism
Asleep at the wheel
Vocalized like Drake / prepped gifts for Christmas
Rapped/wrapped
In jalapeno-flavored Stoli Hot
Vodka
Judge Reinhold & Jennifer Jason Leigh had some "Fast Times" at this school
Ridgemont High
In Israel, Arabic & this
Hebrew
In my mind I was chugging along toward a brilliant statement, but you made me lose this
Train of thought
A word for the cursed / stopped the river from flowing
Damned
First mentioned in records from Barbados around 1650
Rum
Dean Wormer says, "Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son" before kicking Kent out of Faber College in this film
Animal House
In San Marino
Italian
To do things in the wrong order, like with a wagon & a beast of burden
Putting the cart before the horse
Saw something / quoted from a literary work
Sighted/cited
Made from various agaves &, unlike tequila, sometimes has a "worm" in the bottle
Mezcal
Ms. Summers & pals matriculated over to UC Sunnydale, where some folks really vamped it up on this TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In Liechtenstein
German
An isolated location is said to be "off" this thoroughfare
The beaten path
Turned poker chips back into real money / hid something in a safe spot
Cashed/cached
Distilled from wormwood & has a high alcohol content, usually 110 to 144 proof
Absinthe
Chevy Chase was Pierce Hawthorne & you were not at Greendale, this type of college that gave the show its title
Community
In Finland, Finnish & this
Swedish
Pink Floyd's "Learning To Fly" speaks of this kind of "flight" into one's imagination
A flight of fancy
A bell sounded / an apple, skinned
Pealed/peeled
An apple brandy from the Normandy region of France
Calvados
Adam Sandler hit the gridiron for South Central Louisiana State after having this title job
Waterboy
In Andorra, this language named for a region of Spain
Catalan