be doing a land-office business

To be selling something very successfully. Because we sell shovels and rock salt, we're doing a land-office business after that blizzard forecast.

be doing a land-office business

be doing land-office business

AMERICAN, OLD-FASHIONED

If a company is doing a land-office business or is doing land-office business, it is very successful. The Paradiso, one of the capital's newest and most luxurious clubs, was doing a land-office business. Scooter and bicycle dealers are doing land-office business. Note: In the United States before the Civil War, the government opened up land offices which sold rights to pieces of land in the West. So many people wanted to buy land to settle on that there were often long queues outside the offices before they opened in the morning.

词组	be doing a land-office business
释义	be doing a land-office business be doing a land-office business To be selling something very successfully. Because we sell shovels and rock salt, we're doing a land-office business after that blizzard forecast. See also: business Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. be doing a land-office business or be doing land-office business AMERICAN, OLD-FASHIONED If a company is doing a land-office business or is doing land-office business, it is very successful. The Paradiso, one of the capital's newest and most luxurious clubs, was doing a land-office business. Scooter and bicycle dealers are doing land-office business. Note: In the United States before the Civil War, the government opened up land offices which sold rights to pieces of land in the West. So many people wanted to buy land to settle on that there were often long queues outside the offices before they opened in the morning. See also: business Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: do a land-office business land-office business land-office business, a land (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something) a bee in (one's) bonnet a bee in bonnet bee in bonnet bee in one's bonnet bonnet
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