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
You don't mean to tell me," he demanded, "that you're going to take this time of all others to swap horses?
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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
It's pretty late to swap horses at forty-three.
From Together by Robert Herrick
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