sell like hot cakes

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To besoldin large numbersquickly.During a power outage, candlessell like hot cakes.1979,Robin Scott, “Pop Muzik”:You're living in a disco / Forget about the rat race / Let's do the Milkshake /Selling like a hotcake2003, Jim Berkenstadt, Charles R. Cross,Nevermind: Nirvana‎[1]:Geffen employees confirm that about half of the initial run of forty-six thousand [copies ofNevermind] went to the Northwest, where itsold like hot cakes.2005, G. Timothy Haight, Daniel Singer,The real estate investment handbook:These units willsell like hot cakesfor $400000 apiece. Our cost will be $250000. It's a regular gold mine.2009November 27, “Calendar boys get their tops off”, inJohn o'Groat Journal:CALENDARS featuring local men willing to get their kit off for charity areselling like hot cakesafter hitting the market this week.2012, Cosmo Knight,The Day After the Great Trout Run:I sold 12 trout specials yesterday, theysold like hot cakes.

Examples:

EN: Things are slow getting started at first, but, well, the houses are starting to sell like hot cakes, then the commissions will roll in.
ES: Las cosas van despacio al principio, pero... las casas están empezando a venderse como rosquillas... y las comisiones irán llegando.
EN: Your paintings will sell like hot cakes!
ES: ¡Tus cuadros se venderán como pan caliente!
EN: It will sell like hot cakes.
ES: Se venderán como pan caliente.
ES: Gustará y se venderá.
EN: Blue like his pictures that sell like hot cakes in Paris. Blue like the event that our camera is approaching, which most venerable critics consider as the utmost Klein masterpiece, whose dominant color, as any connoisseur may guess, happens to be blue.
ES: Azules son sus padres, y Azul Final es la obra que viene, para muchos, su obra maestra... en la que los conocedores podrán captar que el azul es el color dominante.
EN: Lt'll sell like hot cakes why do you come in?
ES: Venderás muchas
EN: He said in the East that it would sell like hot cakes and he'd split it with me.
ES: Dice que en el Este se venderá a montones y me dará la mitad.
EN: These things are going to sell like hot cakes!
ES: ¡Esto se va a vender como rosquillas!
EN: The truck carries latest arms worth 10 crores that sell like hot cakes.
ES: El camión lleva armas modernas de un valor de 10 millones de rupias Que se venderán como pan caliente.
EN: They sell like hot cakes.
ES: -Se vende como churros.
ES: ¡Se vendem como el agua!
ES: Y se venderán como pan caliente.
EN: They'll sell like hot cakes!
ES: ¡Se venderán como pan caliente!
EN: Maybe both collections will sell like hot cakes.
ES: -Las colecciones se venderán bien.
EN: Adventure, sex... you put that in your book, it'll sell like hot cakes.
ES: Aventura, sexo... pone eso en tu libro, que se va a vender como pan caliente.
EN: That will sell like hot cakes.
ES: Se venderá como rosquillas.
EN: Whoa, how can liquor sell like hot cakes?
ES: Vaya, ¿cómo podemos vender tanto vino?
EN: It's gonna sell like hot cakes.
ES: Se venderá como churros.

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