Multiple choice

These days sales are hard hit by high interest rates using up the disposable income of people.

Choose the correct idiom/phrase for the underlined part of the sentence.

  1. eating their hearts out

  2. eating out of their hands

  3. eating into

  4. eating them up

  5. eating them alive
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct ;the phrase means ' use up profits or resources esp. when they are intended for other purpose. As the profits of poeple are  decreasing, the saled are hard hit.

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