swap horses
Example Sentences
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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
We are called upon to swap horses while crossing the stream.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
The persistent cry of the Liberator and the Antislavery Standard to re-elect Lincoln and not to swap horses in midstream did not ring true to her.
From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma
"Why, the very meat and marrow of his existence is his horse-trading; and who could swap horses and tell the truth at the same time?"
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
