When I first heard the song "Mi Vida Loca" by Pam Tillis, I was totally unprepared to understand the line that says "Destiny turns on a dime". For one thing, I'd known a girl named "Destiny" but wasn't familiar with "destiny" as just a common noun. As a WORD I had no idea what it meant. Secondly, I was totally unfimiliar with the phrase to "turn on a dime". The only way I could guess the meaning was that first, It was about a girl named "Destiny", and secondly the turning on a dime" was meant as if somehow a dime might have an on / off switch. But I puzzled greatly how one could "turn on" a dime in that since (as if it were a light or something). So the song left me wondering in what since a dime could possibly have been "off" so that this girl Destiny could then turn it "on".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- my dad used to tell me that nickles were worth more then a dime cause they were bigger — brittany
- I used to believe that the phrase "Mamma Mia" referred to a girl named Mia.Anon
- When I was a little girl I used to believe that when I grew up I'd turn into a man.— Jessica
- I used to believe that if I could kiss my elbow that I would turn into a girl (the opposite sex).— Rusty
- I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane