sell like hotcakes

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.
See also:
  • by the handful
  • handful
  • pile it/them high and sell it/them cheap
  • hoochfest
  • hootchfest
  • retail to
  • retail to (someone or something)
  • spend money like it's going out of style
  • spend money like there's no tomorrow
  • churn out
References in periodicals archive
Many knives in his lineup date back over 20 years or more and still sell like hotcakes. His hottest selling folder is his DK-FH Folding Hunter, once described by a noted writer as "the only folding knife you'll ever need." Bob developed it over 12 years ago and has put out many variants, including G10 and carbon fiber handled versions.
As the time of writing there were plenty to be had in an array of sizes, but you can guarantee that as the clock ticks down to Ed's opening night in Newcastle, they'll sell like hotcakes.
By itself, shabu is going to sell like hotcakes. By taking it, you open Pandora's box.
Pancakes literally sell like hotcakes during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Just like its predecessors it'll sell like hotcakes! First revealed in September, the all-new MX-5 features will set the heart racing with a new exterior design and SKYACTIV engines.
As noted in many reports, the two devices are optimized to offer "5MP Camera for Unmatched Selfies" and "social networking." This has not convinced analysts that the two units are any good or will sell like hotcakes.
31, toxic watchdog EcoWaste Coalition sounded the warning alarm anew as amulets are expected to sell like hotcakes in the days leading to the festivity.
She who hesitates doesn't get any Esbeda 'Exotic Neutrals' because these promise to sell like hotcakes in the growing fashion conscious populace!
Greenhouse grown tomatoes can't stand up to the competition of a ripe heirloom, but when everyone still has only tiny green rocks on their plants at home, they sell like hotcakes. Hoophouses, cloches, overwintering, shade covers, and other season extenders could help you have unique product (even if it's only unique for that week).
Keane Herman, Hamleys' operations manager predicts the battery operated toy, priced at pounds 39.99 will sell like hotcakes.
He said: "Because I'd bought a house from them, I had confidence in the product - they're never badly built and the fact they sell like hotcakes proves that.
Simon White, who lives close to the proposed development, said he was certain the restored flats would 'sell like hotcakes'.
Much-maligned artists like Phil Collins and Foreigner are enjoying a resurgence as Guilty Secrets CD compilations sell like hotcakes
Under the premise that "we could all use a laugh," or that racist antiques are collectible documentation of "how bad things used to be," ethnic memorabilia sell like hotcakes in online auctions and other markers.
"We knew they'd sell like hotcakes, so the rest of the money is going to the Xavarian Fathers for their missionary work in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Brazil."