sell like hot cakes

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Verb

sell like hot cakes

(intransitive, idiomatic) To sell quickly.
During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes.
- 2003, Jim Berkenstadt, Charles R. Cross - Nevermind: Nirvana
  Geffen employees confirm that about half of the initial run of forty-six thousand [copies of Nevermind] went to the Northwest, where it sold like hot cakes.
- 2005, G. Timothy Haight, Daniel Singer - The real estate investment handbook
  These units will sell like hot cakes for $400000 apiece. Our cost will be $250000. It's a regular gold mine.
- 2009, John o'Groat Journal, 27 November, "Calendar boys get their tops off"
  CALENDARS featuring local men willing to get their kit off for charity are selling like hot cakes after hitting the market this week.
- 2012, Cosmo Knight, "The Day After the Great Trout Run"
  I sold 12 trout specials yesterday, they sold like hot cakes.

Translations

sell quickly

Chinese:
Mandarin: 暢銷 (zh), 畅销 (zh) (chàngxiāo), 熱銷 (zh), 热销 (zh) (rèxiāo), 大賣 (zh), 大卖 (zh) (dàmài) (slang, neologism)
Dutch: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: mennä kuin kuumille kiville, mennä kaupaksi, tehdä kauppansa, käydä kaupaksi
French: se vendre comme des petits pains (fr)
Hungarian: viszik, mint a cukrot, veszik, mint a cukrot, elkapkodják
Icelandic: fljúga út, seljast eins og heitar lummur (is), renna út
Italian: andare a ruba

Japanese: 飛ぶように売れる (tobu yō ni ureru)
Norwegian: selge som varmt hvetebrød
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: a se vinde ca pâinea caldă
Russian: с руками оторвать verb
Spanish: vender como churros, vender como rosquillas
Swedish: sälja som smör, sälja som smör i solsken
Vietnamese: bán chạy như tôm tươi

See also

like hot cakes

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