fire sale | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Aclearancesaleat greatly reduced prices, often at losses.2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’,London Review of Books, volume37, number12:By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer afire saleof some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.2015August 16, Press Association, “Wolves rescue point against Hull thanks to Allan McGregor howler”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:Bruce was happy with a point and is now focused on surviving afire-saleat the KC Stadium before the transfer window shuts, with Tom Huddlestone linked with West Ham. “We have lost 14 players and brought in five or six but the transfer window [closing] is still three weeks away,” he said.2022June 30, Kate Rooney, “FTX closes in on a deal to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for $25 million in a fire sale, source says”, inCNBC‎[2]:Thefire salecomes a week after FTX provided a $250 million emergency line of credit to BlockFi.

Examples:

EN: It's just a big fire sale.
ES: Es un mercado de objetos calcinados.
EN: There's one thing you can't buy in a Europe fire sale or any other market on earth.
ES: Hay algo que no se puede comprar en el mercado calcinado de Europa... o en cualquier otro mercado del mundo.
EN: This is my cease-fire sale.
ES: Son mis rebajas por alto el fuego.
EN: Regular fire sale.
ES: Una verdadera "ganga".
EN: He's really incredible. He wanted to go on our next fire. Says he can do a whole campaign on the first fire sale in automotive history.
ES: Pero tengo un hogar.
EN: From a fire sale?
ES: No huelen ni cuando hace mucho calor.
EN: Starting Monday, I have to have a fire sale.
ES: El lunes haré una liquidación.
EN: Well, Mr. Taste, where'd you get these rags, a fire sale at Disney World?
ES: Bueno, Sr. Buen Gusto, ¿de dónde sacaste estos harapos, de una liquidación en Disney World?
EN: The way they're lined up out there, you'd think we were having a fire sale.
ES: Por la fila de afuera, parece liquidación por incendio.
EN: You look like a fire sale.
ES: Pareces un mendigo.
EN: You're having a fire sale.
ES: El incendio hará que vendas a precio de saldo.
EN: I went to the fire sale at the Baptist Bookstore in Shreveport last week.
ES: Fui a la barata de la Librería Bautista en Shreveport la semana pasada.
EN: And miss the fire sale?
ES: ¿Y perderme la liquidación?
EN: I was able to pick up all the real estate I need for Lex Harbor. At, shall we say, fire sale prices, thanks to the Toasters.
ES: Conseguí los terrenos que necesitaba para Lex Harbor a unos precios ardientes, gracias a los Toasters.
EN: They were having a financial difficulty with the... space shuttle program and we're having a fire sale.
ES: Estaban teniendo dificultades financieras con el ... programa de transbordador espacial y estamos teniendo una venta de incendios.

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