turn on a dime

"In a world where we know that elections can sometimes turn on a dime because of narrow margins, these numbers matter," Crayton said.

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.