Idiom: change hands
Meaning
Idiom: change hands
- to move from one owner to a new owner
Example sentences
- This old house has changed hands 15 times since it was built 200 years ago.
- Yuck! The food is terrible—Is it possible that the restaurant has changed hands since we last ate here?
- Did you know that the used book store recently changed hands?
- The police are investigating whether or not any money changed hands when the interim president was appointed.
- After a day of furious trading, more than a million of the company's shares had changed hands on the stock exchange.
- Many of the worlds most famous paintings have changed hands for hundreds of millions of dollars in private sales.
- Our firm is about to change hands next month so we need you to submit all outstanding invoices for payment as soon as possible.
- The villa changed hands during the Ottoman Empire.
- I think the company is about to change hands.
- Since this café changed hands, it's had excellent service.
Synonyms
- pass on
- trade-in
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