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sell like hot cakes

To sell very quickly. We had to order a second shipment of shirts because they have just been selling like hot cakes!
See also: cake, hot, like, sell

sell like hotcakes

To be sold quickly and in large quantities. This record has been selling like hotcakes—I can't keep it in stock!
See also: hotcake, like, sell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sell like hotcakes

Fig. [for something] to be sold very fast. The delicious candy sold like hotcakes. The fancy new cars were selling like hotcakes.
See also: hotcake, like, sell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

sell like hot cakes

BRITISH or

sell like hotcakes

mainly AMERICAN
If things sell like hot cakes, people buy large quantities of them in a short time. The software is selling like hot cakes. Her products sold like hotcakes. Note: You can also say that things go like hot cakes. The salesman says they've been going like hot cakes. Note: In American English, `hotcakes' are pancakes, while in British English `hot cakes' are cakes which have just been baked.
See also: cake, hot, like, sell
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

sell (or go) like hot cakes

be sold quickly and in large quantities.
See also: cake, hot, like, sell
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • sell like hot cakes
  • sell like hot cakes, to
  • sell/go like hot cakes
  • go like hot cakes
  • like hot cakes, go
  • get hot
  • hot for (something)
  • hot on
  • hot on (something)
  • too hot to handle
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AWESOME APPLE HOTCAKES INGREDIENTS (Makes 10) 115g self-raising flour 1tsp baking powder 1 egg, beaten 175ml buttermilk 3-4tbsp whole milk 1tbsp maple syrup or clear honey, plus extra for drizzling 1tsp vanilla extract 1 eating apple (skin on), cored and coarsely grated 1/2tsp ground cinnamon Unsalted butter or sunflower oil, for cooking Fruit and natural yogurt, to serve METHOD 1.
One Ella of a good idea; A NEW COOKBOOK FROM BABYFOOD BRAND ELLA'S KITCHEN AIMS TO GET EVERYONE AROUND THE TABLE. ITS FOUNDER TELLS JEANANNE CRAIG WHY FAMILY MEALS ARE SO IMPORTANT
AWESOME APPLE HOTCAKES INGREDIENTS (Makes 10) 115g self-raising flour 1tsp baking powder egg, beaten 175ml buttermilk 3-4tbsp whole milk 1tbsp maple syrup or clear honey, plus extra for drizzling 1tsp vanilla extract eating apple (skin on), cored and coarsely grated 1/2tsp ground cinnamon Unsalted butter or sunflower oil, for cooking Fruit and natural yogurt, to serve METHOD 1.
One Ella of a good idea; A NEW COOKBOOK FROM BABYFOOD BRAND ELLA'S KITCHEN AIMS TO GET EVERYONE AROUND THE TABLE. ITS FOUNDER TELLS JEANANNE CRAIG WHY FAMILY MEALS ARE SO IMPORTANT
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