APAD: change horses in midstream

change horses in midstream

To change one's plan or approach when an effort is already underway or at another inopportune time.

Often used as a caution: "don't change horses in midstream".

• 1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:

  A change in the weather is known to be extreme / But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream ?

 

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• 中途改主意 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 06:57:07

• After changing horses in midstream, I mean, taking buses to -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 08:42:07

• work, have u lost anything?:) -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 08:43:12

• weight? maybe -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 09:34:08

• LOL -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 15:07:53

• An incumbent politico would tell the electorate not to do it -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 09:02:15

• like a divorce, a sad but somewhat fitting example? ;-) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 09:35:46

• not always, many times end suffering from both sides -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 11:10:08

• 臨陣換將，兵家大忌 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/29/2024 postreply 10:10:37