sell like hot cakes

English

Verb

sell like hot cakes

1. (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

to sell quickly

• Finnish: mennä kuin kuumille kiville, mennä kaupaksi, tehdä kauppansa, käydä kaupaksi
• Hungarian: viszik, mint a cukrot (hu)
• Icelandic: fljúga út, seljast eins og heitar lummur, renna út

• Italian: andare a ruba (it)
• Romanian: a se vinde ca pâinea caldă (ro)
• Russian: с руками оторвать verb
• Swedish: sälja som smör (sv), sälja som smör i solsken (sv)