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
"I believe in Lincoln's maxim," said he, "that 'it will never do to swap horses while crossing streams.'"
From Waldfried A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
McClellan, watching from his cab the discomfiture of his foe, calls derisively, "Wouldn't you like to swap horses now, Lincoln?"
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper
It's pretty late to swap horses at forty-three.
From Together by Robert Herrick
