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change horses in mid-stream en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of change horses in midstream.
Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”
2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting:The excuse given by his Democrat Party was that the war was going on, and it was not wise to “change horses in mid-stream,” as the popular phrase was used during the months of electioneering before the votes were cast.
2012, Eugene G. Schulz, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army, page 237:“It is not good to change horses in mid-stream”, is what the famous American President Abraham Lincoln said.
2010, Hendrick C. Verton, In the Fire of the Eastern Front:
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