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Old January 02, 2011, 07:05 PM
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Question Landing on a dime
In order to help pilots 'land the airplane on a dime' - which means putting it on the exact spot intended...

Is there a Spanish expression for "landing on a dime".

Could it just be translated as the hyperbolic exaggeration that it is...

"Aterrizar en una moneda de diez centavos"...

(Now I know the guys from Sevilla may be exaggerated... but this one is kind of beyond the beyonds...)
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The more common phrase is 'stop on a dime', which can be translated as 'parar en seco'. ¿Qué te parece 'aterrizar en seco'?
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"Aterrizar en seco" suena muy bien... no sé si los pilotos tendrán alguna expresion de jerga... pero "parar o aterrizar en seco" creo que me sirve para el contexto.

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Pensándolo bien, 'landing on a dime' doesn't mean a sudden stop. It means putting the wheels down on a predetermined spot. This is called 'precision landing', or 'spot landing', and is translated as 'aterrizaje de precisión' or 'aterrizaje preciso'. The verb is 'aterrizar con precisión'.
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¡Ah! ¡Eso tiene mucho sentido! ¡Gracias!
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puedes dejarlo como "era capaz de aterrizar sobre una moneda", si no te sirve el "era capaz de aterrizar con gran precisión"
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And the inevitable BrE to land on a sixpence (a very small silver coin, 6 old pence worth 0.0000000000001 euros today)
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Ja... está bien, "en una moneda" la verdad es que comunica la idea de la precisión... Me resulta curioso, porque a veces una traducción "literal" está "mal vista por los traductores profesionales", pero cuando es una metáfora o una hipérbole que no se ha fosilizado, la verdad es que puede funcionar también bien...

Gracias a todos... (and I take a sixpence may have more value for a collector than its 'actual' value... or is not even worth talking about it...?)
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Gracias a todos... (and I take a sixpence may have more value for a collector than its 'actual' value... or is not even worth talking about it...?)
Probably quite common. Sixpence pieces were very common. Ten a penny in fact. I do however have a silver threepence piece which is extremely rare. I am open to serious offers.
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I take you are going to get deluged with requests... offers and bids...
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For only three pence ? This conversation is going downhill fast.
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(Yup! Probably it is easier to land on a three-penny track...)
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