on a dime
Example Sentences
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From Champions League toe-pokes to swivelling on a dime in baggy blaugrana, the Ballon d'Or winner's very presence was enough to tune in for.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
The stock market’s day-to-day narrative can change on a dime, and this week’s theme of a pullback in precious metals and bitcoin continued early on Thursday.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
Things “can change on a dime, as it has in the past.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
For starters, auto makers can’t shift production or plans on a dime.
From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025
Equipped with reflexes much faster than those of the most quick-wired man, he swoops over as much as twenty-eight feet of earth in a single stride, and corners on a dime.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
