stop on a dime

Hungry Joe stopped on a dime when he saw them and shot out of the room.

She'd been doing over forty knots and she didn't exactly stop on a dime.

It can't stop on a dime and turn around.

The movie, in which pacing is all, stops on a dime.

The conversation stopped on a dime as my coaches turned to stare at me.

The order was, you see anybody run, give them a warning, and if they don't stop on a dime, shoot.

"We want to be able to stop on a dime, direct all our energy toward a goal, turn quickly and accelerate rapidly."

He had developed the unusual ability to stop on a dime and relax instantly.

Stopping on a dime, they dropped in jump shots from all over the floor.

"To start, speed up, stop on a dime and leave two nickels."

It was a power brake, and the car stopped on a dime and gave them change.

An electronic system simultaneously applies the brakes in each car, so the train can stop on a dime.

The ball's physics have been called into question, with the ball stopping on a dime after three or less bounces.

It's worth it just to watch that horse of his come racing in and stop on a dime," Ryan said.

He'd stopped on a dime, and now threw himself to the right as the cat-man's feet drove at his chest.

Sorry we weren't able to stop on a dime for you, Captain, but we've brought engines to full stop.

Now automotive engineers are catering to buyers who also want their big cars to start and stop on a dime.

A 50-ton locomotive cannot stop on a dime.

"You let it coast down to about ten miles an hour and throw it in reverse it'll stop on a dime."

"Onstage, I can stop on a dime," she said.

And consumers' borrow-to-spend funfest of recent years is not likely to stop on a dime.

Those trains do not stop on a dime."

I was watching a physiological performance, watching him accelerate and stop on a dime."

"He can stop on a dime," Mickens said of Slaughter.

Thank God, it stopped on a dime.