change hands

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To become thepropertyof someone else; to beboughtorsold.Synonym:trade handsThe food got a lot worse after the restaurantchanged hands.2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page210:The line has sincechanged handsseveral times, and is now to re-open as a preserved railway (a railway for leisure only), running vintage diesels and electrics, but with the aim of restoring steam.

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