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sell like hotcakes
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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: like, sell

sell like hotcakes also sell like hot cakes
to sell quickly and in large numbers Since word got out about the Perry case, the book has been selling like hot cakes.
See also: like, sell


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has been preaching this "prosperity gospel" for two decades, and if the overflowing congregations and collection plates at his Atlanta-based megachurch are any indication, the message is selling like hotcakes.
Children can eat a breakfast of hotcakes and ham, make handicrafts to take home and visit with Santa Claus.
His articles appear on the cover of The New York Times Magazine with astonishing frequency; he blogs for the Times too, and his books sell like organic hotcakes.
 
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