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.
See also:
  • 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