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on a dime en · ADP

Meanings

1. (US, idiomatic) Within a very short distance; especially, with agile precision in a very confined space and suddenly.
   • This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a dime.
   • This boat can turn on a dime.
   • 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 behind 2012, Ingrid Michaelson, “Do It Now”, in Human Again:

Relateds

on the dot

Synonyms

on a sixpence

Translations (1)

es por el canto de un duro (within a very short distance)