sell like hot cakes

hot cake

noun
1.
a pancake or griddlecake.
2.
sell/go like hot cakes, to be disposed of very quickly and effortlessly, especially in quantity: His record sold like hot cakes on the first day after its release.

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Sell like hot cakes is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1675–85, Americanism


1. See pancake.

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sell like hot cakes

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