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"Stop on a dime" nghĩa là gì?
24 Mar, 2020
Xịn chưa! Photo courtesy: Randy Kashka
"Stop on a dime" = dừng ngay một hào -> dừng bất chợt hoặc ngay lập tức mặc dù đang di chuyển rất nhanh. Câu nói bắt nguồn từ việc xe hơi có thể dừng ngay lập tức trong vòng một "dime" (= 18mm) khi đạp phanh.
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He’s been a salesman for 30 years and yet he just stopped on a dime and became a farmer.
There’s a sense of urgency (thôi thúc) to figure this thing out, and the NCAA is working on it. Apsey is heartbroken for Boise State’s winter sports athletes who saw things stop on a dime—and for the seniors who saw their careers suddenly end. He likened (so sánh, ví như) it to the football team’s experience when the First Responder Bowl was canceled during the first quarter in December 2018.
Furthermore, Disney is pausing production on its live-action Little Mermaid and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Putting each of these blockbusters on hold is estimated to cost the House of Mouse between $300,000 and $350,000 a day. That’s over $2 million per week for every wide-release tentpole (phim “đình đám” chủ yếu nhằm gặt hái doanh thu cho các hãng phim). As one exec told THR, “It’s not like you can stop on a dime. You need to keep department heads going and maybe a level down from there through the hiatus (gián đoạn, đứt quãng).”
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