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sell like hot cakes

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hot cake

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

Origin:
1675–85, Americanism


1. See pancake.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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