like hot cakes

like hot cakes
Quickly, especially by purchase or consumption.

These new toys should sell like hot cakes.


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  • go like hot cakes — go/sell/like hot cakes phrase to be sold very quickly in large quantities The tickets are selling like hot cakes. Thesaurus: to be sold or for salesynonym general words for the activity of buying and sellinghyponym …   Useful english dictionary

  • sell like hot cakes —    If a product is selling very well, it is selling like hot cakes.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    Things that sell like hot cakes sell quickly or in large quantities.     Her books always sell like hot cakes …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • go like hot cakes — go/sell like hot cakes if things are going like hot cakes, people are buying a lot of them very fast. The book has only just been published and copies are already selling like hot cakes in both Britain and America. (often in continuous tenses) …   New idioms dictionary

  • sell like hot cakes — go/sell like hot cakes if things are going like hot cakes, people are buying a lot of them very fast. The book has only just been published and copies are already selling like hot cakes in both Britain and America. (often in continuous tenses) …   New idioms dictionary

  • sell like hot cakes — INFORMAL ► to be bought quickly and in large numbers: »With profits bonds have sold like hot cakes to older people looking for a low risk, high return for their money. Main Entry: ↑sell …   Financial and business terms

  • sell like hot cakes — If a product is selling very well, it is selling like hot cakes …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • sell like hot cakes — verb To sell fast. During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes …   Wiktionary

  • sell or go like hot cakes — idi sell or go like hot cakes, to be bought, taken, or disposed of very quickly, esp. in quantity …   From formal English to slang

  • Sell like hot cakes —   If a product is selling very well, it is selling like hot cakes …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • sell like hot cakes — ► sell like hot cakes informal be sold quickly and in large quantities. Main Entry: ↑cake …   English terms dictionary

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