These new shirts are selling like hot cakes.
sell like hot cakes
idiomTo be sold in large numbers quickly.
Origin
disputed originAfter the proverbial popularity of pancakes in 19th-century America.
The bakery opened early, and their fresh bread sold like hot cakes all morning.
Once the celebrity endorsed the product, it sold like hot cakes, leaving the shelves empty within hours of the store opening.
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and the like
And other similar items; et cetera.
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baking hot
Very hot.
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be like
To say.
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blow hot air
To engage in empty or exaggerated talk that lacks substance, credibility, or truth; to bluster.
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blow hot and cold
To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
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boiling hot
Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).
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built like a brick outhouse
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
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built like a brick shipyard
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.