sell like hot cakes

意味

to be bought quickly by a lot of people

多くの人に次々と買われる.

例文

1. 1The tickets for the summer festival sold like hot cakes and were gone in an hour.
2. 2Umbrellas always sell like hot cakes when it starts raining in town.
3. 3Her first novel is selling like hot cakes, so the shop has ordered another hundred copies.
4. 4Did your homemade lemonade sell like hot cakes at the school fair, or was there lots left?
5. 5When the new phone came out, it sold like hot cakes and the shops ran out within days.

文法

形が変わるのは sell だけ（sells、sold、selling）。cakes は複数形のまま。go like hot cakes とも言う。