on a dime
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US, Idiomatic Within a very short distance; especially, with agile precision in a very confined space and suddenly.
- This boat can turn on a dime.
- This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a dime.
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- Everything will stop on a dime / Everything will crash into itself in good time / Do you want to beat your own heart, beat your own heart / Or leave it behind / Or leave it behind2012, Ingrid Michaelson, “Do It Now”, in Human Again:
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