ringing the changes

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In total there were 22 bowling switches, Cummins ringing the changes more than any other captain at this World Cup.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2023

Chelis is supposedly ringing the changes from an already transformed Chivas side that had the local Columbus announcers confessing to not knowing who "half these guys" were during last week's game.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013

Weller is ringing the changes at Argos, which last had a makeover at the millennium.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010

As for subjects of verse, they are only too plenty For ringing the changes on metrical chimes; A maiden, a moonbeam, a lover of twenty, Have filled that great basket with bushels of rhymes.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Then he kept ringing the changes on an expression I must have used in argument with his mother the day I persuaded her to keep his bedraggled foundling.

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin