Sell like hotcakes meaning in English
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Definition
It's gonna sell like hotcakes!: It will sell very well! Many people will buy it!
Examples
- "Harold : Like hotcakes!"
Exercise 1
Below is a list of Delavigne products sold at Warbuckle's Department Stores.
Based on the conversation you just heard, select the status of each product according to Harold.
Based on the conversation you just heard, select the status of each product according to Harold.
| Product name | Last Quarter's sales | To Reorder? |
| Bordello Breeze | → | |
| TigerLily | → | |
| Moulin Magic | → |
Below is a list of Delavigne products sold at Warbuckle's Department Stores.
Based on the conversation you just heard, select the status of each product according to Harold.
Based on the conversation you just heard, select the status of each product according to Harold.
| Product name | Last Quarter's sales | To Reorder? |
| Bordello Breeze | Very good 1 → | Yes 2 |
| TigerLily | Very good 3 → | Yes 4 |
| Moulin Magic | Poor 5 → | No 6 |
1 Very good: This is correct. Bordello Breeze, the first perfume mentioned by Philip and Harold, has been "selling like hotcakes", an expression used to describe an item which is selling very well.
1 Average: The sales of Bordello Breeze are better than average.
1 Poor: The sales of Bordello Breeze are not poor!
2 Yes: This is true. Harold wants to "reorder" or "place another order" for Bordello Breeze. Specifically, he and Philip agree to an order of 90,000 units.
2 No: This is not correct. Harold decides to reorder 90,000 units of Bordello Breeze.
3 Very good: This is true. Harold says that TigerLily is a "huge hit", meaning that it has been very successful and has sold very well.
3 Average: This is not correct. The sales of TigerLily are better than average.
3 Poor: This is not correct. The sales of TigerLily are better than poor.
4 Yes: This is correct. Harold wants to "reorder" or "place another order" for TigerLily. Specifically, he and Philip agree on an order of 160(000) units.
4 No: This is not correct. Harold decides to reorder 160,000 units of Bordello Breeze.
5 Poor: This is correct. Harold tells Philip that he has "hardly sold" any of the 30,000 units of Moulin Magic he ordered last quarter. "Hardly" is synonymous with "barely" and "just", in this context it means "almost none". Example: You hardly ate = You ate almost nothing.
5 Average: This is not correct. The sales of Moulin Magic were worse than average.
5 Very good: This is not correct. The sales of Moulin Magic were worse than good!
6 No: This is correct. Harold does not wish to reorder any more Moulin Magic for right now.
6 Yes: This is not correct.
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