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

It's pretty late to swap horses at forty-three.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

If you had horses or mules and the Yankees come along three or four years after the war, they would swap horses, ride a piece, and if they had a chance swap horses again.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by Work Projects Administration

Besides this deepening sentiment of personal devotion and confidence, there was a wide conviction that, in his own expressive phrase, "it is not wise to swap horses while crossing the stream."

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie