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
It's pretty late to swap horses at forty-three.
From Together by Robert Herrick
Garrison was wiser than Phillips in his unwillingness to have the country, in the homely speech of the President, "swap horses while crossing a stream."
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
He did not propose to swap horses or watches or jack-knives, but he would swap ideas with you day in and day out.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
