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• swap — Synonyms and related words: alternate, backscratching, bandy, bang, bargain, barter, bash, be quits with, belt, biff, blind bargain, bump, burst, bust, buy and sell, change, clap, clash, commute, compensate, cooperate, counterchange, crack, crash …   Moby Thesaurus

• swap — see don’t change horses in mid stream …   Proverbs new dictionary

• don’t change horses in mid-stream — The proverb is also used in the phrase to change horses in mid stream. 1864 A. LINCOLN Collected Works (1953) VII. 384 I am reminded..of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was best not to swap horses when… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• change horses in midstream — • change horses in midstream • change horses in the middle of a stream make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity They decided to change horses in midstream and that is probably why they lost the election. (var.) …   Idioms and examples

• change horses in the middle of a stream — • change horses in midstream • change horses in the middle of a stream make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity They decided to change horses in midstream and that is probably why they lost the election. (var.) …   Idioms and examples

• don't change horses in midstream — Meaning Proverb. Origin From an 1864 speech by Abraham Lincoln. An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses in mid stream …   Meaning and origin of phrases

• exchange — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. reciprocity, substitution; trade, barter, commerce; conversion, interchange; market. See business, transfer. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of replacing one thing with another] Syn. transfer,… …   English dictionary for students

• exchange — [n1] trade; deal barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement …   New thesaurus

• barter — Synonyms and related words: abalienate, abalienation, agency, alien, alienate, alienation, amortization, amortize, amortizement, assign, assignation, assignment, backscratching, bargain, bargain and sale, bartering, bequeath, bequeathal,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• change — Synonyms and related words: aberration, about face, accommodate, adapt, adjust, advance, agency, agent, alchemy, alter, alteration, alternate, alternative, ameliorate, analogy, analysis, analyze, anatomization, anatomize, ascend, assimilate to,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• deal — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine intrigues, abatement of differences, accommodation, accord, act, act on, adjustment, administer, affair, afford, agreement, align, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allowance, amount, apportion, arrangement …   Moby Thesaurus