sell like hot cakes

뜻

to be bought quickly by a lot of people

많은 사람에게 빠르게 팔리다.

예문

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.

문법

동사 sell만 형태가 바뀐다: sells, sold, selling. cakes는 복수형 그대로 둔다. go like hot cakes라고도 한다.