do a land-office business
do a land-office business
To sell something very successfully. Stores that sell shovels and rock salt always do a land-office business after the prediction of a snowstorm.
See also: business
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
do a land-office business
Fig. to do a large amount of buying or selling in a short period of time. The icecream shop always does a land-office business on a hot day. The tax collector's office did a land-office business on the day that taxes were due.
See also: business
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- be doing a land-office business
- sell away
- soft sell
- sell/go like hot cakes
- sell like hot cakes
- sell like hot cakes, to
- hotcake
- sold
- date
- corner the market on