When the moment was right, he changed his stripes and became a royalist.
But it's very, very difficult to get these guys to change their political stripes.
But it was certainly symbolic - Apple is changing its stripes.
Not everyone thinks that the Yankee owner has changed his stripes.
But depending on the political climate, the credit changes its stripes.
Slowly, Sparky's would change its stripes, he was sure of it.
"And I, for one, am skeptical that they've changed their stripes."
"A tiger does not change its stripes" is a quote attributed to her.
Might as well ask a cat to change his stripes.
I'm a newspaperman, and I can't change my stripes, not even for you.