“Tickets for the White Rose Award Finalist, Yorkshire Dales Food & Drink Festival are on sale and are selling like hot cakes!”
“It has just been announced that the show will be extending its run until March next year, but tickets are bound to go like hot cakes.”
“Tickets from Paris to Saint Pierre have sold like hot cakes - much to experts’ surprise.”
This term originated in the mid-1800s. It apparently refers to hot cakes, known as drop scones in England and pancakes in Scotland, which are popular at church sales, food fairs, and similar events and tend to sell rapidly. [1]
[1] “like hot cakes, go” in The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, by Christine Ammer. 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2013.
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