Meanings of flick a switch in English

They can just flick a switch and turn it on, Carter said.

You flick a switch and turn off the human side of you.

I wish you could flick a switch and stop having those feelings towards someone.

Dr Bloomfield said officials cannot " flick a switch" and begin testing everyone immediately.

Is it possible to flick a switch?

Every weekday morning in Berlin, from October to April, I flick a switch and give thanks for Finland.

You can't just flick a switch.

Turns out you have to return to the home screen and flick a switch to remove all the custom recordings.

The missile operator just had to flick a switch forward of the gripstock from safety to armed, then pull the trigger.

Turn the handle for half a minute, flick a switch, and listen up: an hour's worth of AM, FM, or globe-spanning shortwave.

The idea that you could flick a switch for data-crunching was as futuristic at the time as humanoid robots or flying cars.

A spokeswoman for Britannia Airways, who described the incident as "no big deal", said engineers "just needed to flick a switch".

And it's possible that all the technological ducks are in a row, allowing Apple merely to flick a switch and say goodbye to music DRM.

He said about 1.25 million Australians claimed negative gearing and the government couldn't just " flick a switch" on such a significant chunk of the population.

He reached toward the nightstand and flicked a switch on a cord.

He flicked a switch, and a light came on above the mirror.