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
The people this time were like the Dutch farmer,—they believed that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream."
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various
This skill in parables gave him the expression, "Better not swap horses in the middle of the stream," that gave him his second election.
From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight
"I believe in Lincoln's maxim," said he, "that 'it will never do to swap horses while crossing streams.'"
From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
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