swap horses

Idioms  

1. see change horses in midstream.

---

Example Sentences

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

We will swap horses till the doom, And mend the pots and kettles of mankind, And lend our sons to big-time vaudeville, Or to the race-track, or the learned world.

From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various

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 Grimké, Archibald Henry

Abraham Lincoln was again elected President, the people seeming impressed with the wisdom of his quaint phrase that "it was best not to swap horses while crossing a stream."

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.

Related Words

• swap