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
We will swap horses till the doom, And mend the pots and kettles of mankind, And lend our sons to big-time vaudeville, Or to the race-track, or the learned world.
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
"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.
