sell like hot cakes
/ˌsel laɪk ˌhɒt ˈkeɪks/INFORMAL · C2
Meaning
to be bought quickly by a lot of people
Examples
- 1The tickets for the summer festival sold like hot cakes and were gone in an hour.
- 2Umbrellas always sell like hot cakes when it starts raining in town.
- 3Her first novel is selling like hot cakes, so the shop has ordered another hundred copies.
- 4Did your homemade lemonade sell like hot cakes at the school fair, or was there lots left?
- 5When the new phone came out, it sold like hot cakes and the shops ran out within days.
Grammar
Only sell changes form: sells, sold, selling. Keep cakes plural. Also go like hot cakes.
More idioms about food
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