shuffle the cards

verb2

1. •
   (figurative) To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation.

   • Things often look as though they have radically changed; whereas they have just taken on opposite appearances, as they so often do, to shuffle the cards and set people on a side track. — 2005
2. •
   (figurative) To randomize an ongoing process.

   • Progress in one quarter only implies retrogression in another; human endeavor with its victories and its failures means no more than that the Absolute is shuffling the cards. — 1902