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put on the auction block
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–noun
1.
Also called
block.
a platform from which an auctioneer sells:
the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
—Idiom
2.
put on the auction block,
to offer for sale at auction; offer to sell to the highest bidder.
Also,
put on the block.
Origin:
1840–50,
Americanism
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