go against the stream Идиома

change horses in mid stream

change plans/methods after you have begun a competition or business We're in the furniture business, not clothing. We can't change horses in mid stream.

change horses in midstream

make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity They have decided to change lawyers but I told them that they shouldn

mainstream

common, familiar, of the majority Smoking isn't as common now. It isn't a mainstream activity.

change horses in the middle of the stream

Idiom(s): change horses in the middle of the stream

Theme: CHANGE

to make major changes in an activity that has already begun; to choose someone or something else after it is too late.
• I'm already baking a cherry pie. I can't bake an apple pie. It's too late to change horses in the middle of the stream.
• The house is half-built. It's too late to hire a different architect. You can't change horses in the middle of the stream.

Don't change horses in mid-stream.

Plans must not be altered at the wrong time.

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v. phr. To make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity. When a new President is to be elected during a war, the people may decide not to change horses in the middle of a stream.

change horses in midstream, don't

change horses in midstream, don't
Also, don't swap horses in midstream. It's unwise to alter methods or choose new leaders during a crisis, as in I don't hold with getting a new manager right now—let's not swap horses in midstream. This expression was popularized (although not originated) by Abraham Lincoln in a speech in 1864 when he discovered that the National Union League was supporting him for a second term as President.

don't change horses at midstream

don't change horses at midstream
see change horses in midstream, don't.

midstream

midstream
see change horses in midstream, don't.

stream

stream
see change horses in midstream, don't; swim against the current.

go adjoin the stream

To act or behave in action or adverse to what is about understood, assumed, practiced, or accepted. I absolutely went adjoin the beck back I was in academy with some abolitionist opinions, but as I've developed earlier I accept begin myself falling added in band with added people's way of thinking. I don't accept why you consistently accept to bathe adjoin the beck instead of authoritative things a little easier on yourself!Learn more: go, stream

go, swim, etc. with/against the ˈstream/ˈtide

behave/not behave in the aforementioned way as best added people: He’s a appearance artist who’s consistently swum adjoin the stream; his assignment is actual original. ♢ Why do you consistently accept to go adjoin the tide?Learn more: stream, tide

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