swap horses

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Major Companies Push the Limits of a Tax Break It began more than 90 years ago as a small tax break intended to help family farmers who wanted to swap horses and land.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2013

In Hollywood, Jim Moran, who has spent 82 hours looking for a needle in a haystack and once sold an ice box to an Eskimo, laid plans to swap horses in midstream.

From Time Magazine Archive

I guess I’ve got a right to swap horses if I want to.

From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Abraham Lincoln was again elected President, the people seeming impressed with the wisdom of his quaint phrase that "it was best not to swap horses while crossing a stream."

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.

When President Lincoln refused to change generals at a certain time during the Civil War, saying that it was not wise to "swap horses while crossing a stream," he reasoned from analogy.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.