| 单词 | to sell like hot cakes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes 2. colloquial. In plural in like hot cakes, as the type of something very desirable or in great demand; originally and frequently in to sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be sold or find buyers sell1609 utter1611 vend1622 vent1622 to go off1625 move1759 sale1809 to sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes1839 1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco I. xi. 74 ‘You had better buy 'em, Colonel,’ said Mr. Lummucks, ‘they will sell like hot cakes.’ 1879 Congress. Rec. 15 May 1368/1 Four per cent bonds..go off like hot cakes. 1908 Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 Ice creams at 3d. a time went ‘like hot cakes’. 1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies x. 183 Those who were fortunate enough to own cottages or public houses at the more dangerous corners..were selling tickets like very expensive hot cakes. 1971 Petticoat 17 July 3/1 You'll find amazing hessian bags..selling like hot cakes for only £1.50. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 July ix. 3/2 These wide-bottomed, calf-length split-skirts are moving like hotcakes. < as lemmas |
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