"change horses in mid-stream" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "changes horses in mid-stream",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "changing horses in mid-stream",
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    {
      "form": "changed horses in mid-stream",
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    },
    {
      "form": "changed horses in mid-stream",
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      "expansion": "change horses in mid-stream (third-person singular simple present changes horses in mid-stream, present participle changing horses in mid-stream, simple past and past participle changed horses in mid-stream)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "change horses in midstream"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Hendrick C. Verton, In the Fire of the Eastern Front",
          "text": "“It is not good to change horses in mid-stream”, is what the famous American President Abraham Lincoln said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting",
          "text": "Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Eugene G. Schulz, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army, page 237",
          "text": "The excuse given by his Democrat Party was that the war was going on, and it was not wise to “change horses in mid-stream,” as the popular phrase was used during the months of electioneering before the votes were cast.",
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  "word": "change horses in mid-stream"
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    {
      "form": "changes horses in mid-stream",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "changing horses in mid-stream",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "changed horses in mid-stream",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "changed horses in mid-stream",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2010, Hendrick C. Verton, In the Fire of the Eastern Front",
          "text": "“It is not good to change horses in mid-stream”, is what the famous American President Abraham Lincoln said.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting",
          "text": "Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”",
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          "ref": "2012, Eugene G. Schulz, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army, page 237",
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          "type": "quotation"
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