sell like hot cakes

verb

Definitions

  1. To be sold in large numbers quickly.

    • During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes.
    • You're living in a disco / Forget about the rat race / Let's do the Milkshake / Selling like a hotcake
    • 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.

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