Auction Phrases

Phrases

• A bridge too far
• Any advance on
• Asking price
• Auctioned off
• Biggest daily sale on Earth (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Bridge that gap with Cadbury's Snack (Cadbury's Snack advertising slogan)
• Bridge the gap
• Buy and sell
• Buy it Sell it Love it (eBay advertising slogan)
• Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
• Dutch auction
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Fire Sale
• Going, going, gone
• Last time of asking
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make a bid for
• Make a sale
• March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
• Not for sale
• Pile it high and sell it cheap
• Point of sale
• Sale of the century
• Sell out
• Sell someone a dummy
• Sell your grandmother
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean movie)
• The Brooklyn Bridge (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Golden Gate Bridge (tourist attraction in USA)
• The Problem of Thor Bridge (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Rialto Bridge (tourist attraction in Venice Italy)
• Under the hammer
• View from a Bridge (play by Arthur Miller)
• Water under the bridge
• We drink all we can, the rest we sell (Utica Club advertising slogan)
• We sell more cars than Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet, and Buick combined (Matchbox advertising slogan)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• We will sell no wine before it is time (Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan)