like hot cakes

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What does like hot cakes mean?

Synonym of quickly, especially in the context of sales or consumption.

Where does like hot cakes come from?

Used with various other verbs in the manner of the original idiom sell like hot cakes, after the proverbial popularity of pancakes in 19th-century America.

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