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come under the hammer
(redirected from go under the hammer)

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come under the hammer and go under the hammer
Fig. [for something] to be auctioned. The house at the corner is coming under the hammer next week. The repossessed farm will go under the hammer.
See also: come, hammer

come/go under the hammer
to be sold at an auction (= a public sale where objects are bought by the people who offer the most money) Both collections will come under the hammer and are expected to make -1m at Phillips' in London next month.
See drive home
See also: come, hammer


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On a square foot basis, there are other trophy buildings in the city that could go onto shatter sales records but, said Rocett, it's anyone's guess if they'll go under the hammer.
More than 150,000 Concorde items are to go under the hammer in a British Airways online auction.
Seventy auction lots will go under the hammer during a 90-minute television and Internet broadcast, following which an additional 70 lots will be auctioned on the Internet via The Auction Channel's Web site.
 
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