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swap

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1. swap - Noun

2. swap - Verb

Meaning

A blow; a stroke.

To strike; -- with off.

To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

An exchange; a barter.

Hastily.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas Edison

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.' Abraham Lincoln

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life-life's "experiences"-are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side. Mark Twain

Never swap horses crossing a stream. American Proverb

You do not swap horses while crossing the ford. Russian Proverb

Don't swap horses when crossing the stream. Russian Proverb

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