pick bids off the wall

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pick bids off the wall (third-person singular simple present picks bids off the wall, present participle picking bids off the wall, simple past and past participle picked bids off the wall)

  1. (informal) For an auctioneer to acknowledge non-existent bids, so as to fraudulently drive up the price for the actual competing bidders.