hotcake

go like hot cakes

To sell very quickly and in large quantities. We had to order a second shipment of shirts because they've been going like hot cakes! This record has gone like hot cakes since it came out. I can't keep it in stock!

See also: cake, go, hot, like

like hot cakes

Very quickly and in large quantities, as of items being sold. We had to order a second shipment of shirts because they've been selling like hot cakes! This record has gone like hot cakes since it came out. I can't keep it in stock!

See also: cake, hot, like

sell like hot cakes

To sell very quickly and in large quantities. We had to order a second shipment of shirts because they have just been selling like hot cakes! This record has been selling like hot cakes—I can't keep it in stock!

See also: cake, hot, like, sell

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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: hotcake, like, sell

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

sell (or go) like hot cakes

be sold quickly and in large quantities.

See also: cake, hot, like, sell

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