1. swap - Noun
2. swap - Verb
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 dictionaryI 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