horses for courses

Meaning

1. the act of matching people with suitable jobs or tasks

From the same entry

• from the horse's mouth
• hold your horses
• a one, two, three, horse race
• you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
• back the wrong horse
• put the cart before the horse
• change horses in midstream
• a dark horse
• drive a coach and horses through
• eat like a horse
• flog a dead horse
• look a gift horse in the mouth