TURN ON A DIME

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Have a small turning radius

Example:

My little subcompact car turns on a dime!

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "turn on a dime" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frame:

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