go under the hammer

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To be put up for or sold at auction. The banker's family estate had to go under the hammer to cover some of his mounting debt.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kyou	kyo:	Japanese
Gervas	-	German, Ancient Germanic
Ingemar	ING-e-mahr	Swedish
Jericho	JER-i-ko (English)	Biblical
Lina (3)	-	Indian, Hindi
Stavros	-	Greek