Multiple choice

Directions: Substitute the underlined part of the idiom or the phrase with the appropriate option.

Rembrandt's paintings went above the hammer to pay off the family’s debts.

  1. beneath

  2. under

  3. beside

  4. aside

  5. inside
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Come/go under the hammer To be sold at an auction (a public sale where objects are bought by the people who offer the most money).

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