come/go under the hammer
to be sold at an auction (= public sale where objects are bought by the people who offer the most money):
A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer next year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Buying & selling - general words
- all-you-can-eat
- barter
- black market
- bottom
- brokerage
- channel
- cold-calling
- first refusal
- high street
- hock
- market share
- pawn
- pay
- procurement
- the grey market
- trade
- trade route
- trading
- transaction
- under the counter idiom
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