sell like hot cakes
Verb
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Verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To sell quickly.
- During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes.
- 2003, Jim Berkenstadt, Charles R. Cross - Nevermind: Nirvana ↗
- Geffen employees confirm that about half of the initial run of forty-six thousand [copies of Nevermind] went to the Northwest, where it sold like hot cakes.
- 2005, G. Timothy Haight, Daniel Singer - The real estate investment handbook
- These units will sell like hot cakes for $400000 apiece. Our cost will be $250000. It's a regular gold mine.
- 2009, John o'Groat Journal, 27 November, "Calendar boys get their tops off"
- CALENDARS featuring local men willing to get their kit off for charity are selling like hot cakes after hitting the market this week.
- 2012, Cosmo Knight, "The Day After the Great Trout Run"
- I sold 12 trout specials yesterday, they sold like hot cakes.''
- French: se vendre comme des petits pains
- Italian: andare a ruba
- Spanish: vender como churros, vender como rosquillas
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