change horses in midstream
производить крупные перемены в неподходящий момент, "коней на переправе не меняют"
Jim has decided to change his coach before the match, but I told him he'd better not change horses in midstream.
Другие идиомы:
- back the wrong horse
- get off one's high horse
- work like a horse
- change of heart
- change (someone's) mind
- change of pace
- straight from the horse's mouth
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- eat like a horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- horse sense
- horse of a different color
- put the cart before the horse
- change the subject
- dark horse