APAD: change horses in midstream

移花接木 2024-02-29 03:47:36 ( reads)

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

After changing horses in midstream, I mean, taking buses to

work, have u lost anything?:)

weight? maybe

LOL

An incumbent politico would tell the electorate not to do it

like a divorce, a sad but somewhat fitting example? ;-)

not always, many times end suffering from both sides

临阵换将，兵家大忌