change your jacket

change your jacket
   to desert an old allegiance
   A modern variant of turn your coat:
    This was made possible because there were those in the new Socialist Order who had 'changed their jackets' following Franco's death, (letter in Daily Telegraph, 17 December 1998)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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