trading hands

Verb

trade hands (third-person singular simple present trades hands, present participle trading hands, simple past and past participle traded hands)

1. (idiomatic) To change ownership.
   • Also, no money trades hands. This lack of money may make the dating market not seem like a market at all, but eighteen years of economics training has allowed me to see economics everywhere.2014, Paul Oyer, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   change hands