fall under the hammer

The abandoned buffet table spoke to the allure of the art falling under the hammer next door.

He fell under the Hammer of the Gods!

Another recent auction in Leeds saw a run-down stone farmhouse without water or other amenities finally fall under the hammer for £330,500.

FSB 31 was the next ARVN position to fall under the hammer.

Overhead the freight-train rumble of artillery passed, and seconds later the lead element of the 77th Marines fell under the hammer of airburst shells.

I would line it up at the ten o'clock position where I could see it and it would step round and fall under the hammer with the first pull of the trigger.

Menkes isn't the only editor whose frocks have fallen under the hammer of late: on 25 June, a selection of the late, great Diana Vreeland's garments was auctioned in London.

From the perspective I have, which I admit is limited, many of the inner city pubs and venues, which nurtured young talent, which shimmied then shook and raged, have fallen under the hammer.

Following the Christie's sales of the collections of the British aristocrat Daphne Guinness and Hollywood doyenne Elizabeth Taylor, the latest lot to fall under the hammer belongs to Suzy Menkes, fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune and an acknowledged authority on fashion.