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

All's fair in a horse trade, an' friends didn't orter swap horses widout they kin stand the shkinnin'.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

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

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 Hale, Edward Everett