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
Besides this deepening sentiment of personal devotion and confidence, there was a wide conviction that, in his own expressive phrase, "it is not wise to swap horses while crossing the stream."
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
For reasons known to all statesmen, it is out of the question to swap horses in crossing a river; and all publishers know that it is equally impossible to change titles under those circumstances.
From If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale
The people this time were like the Dutch farmer,—they believed that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream."
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various
