turn on a dime

It’s like turning a tanker ship that doesn’t turn on a dime.

Now, scientists from Japan report today in Matter that they have created a bipedal biohybrid bot that can turn on a dime, albeit slowly.

I mean, even some professional economists haven’t caught up and are still talking about stubbornly high inflation; we shouldn’t have expected everyday people’s perceptions to turn on a dime.

He can turn on a dime and be hilarious and then heartbreaking and be hilarious again and so, so frustrated with her and so in love with her and so hating.

“What we’ve seen with these storms, and it is different, is it can turn on a dime. The playbook can’t be the same.”