| 单词 | to walk off the shelves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto walk off the shelves P16. colloquial. to walk off the shelves (also to walk out of the shop and variants): (of a product) to sell rapidly or without effort on the part of the retailer.In quot. 1940 used punningly of shoes. ΚΠ 1940 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 May 18/6 (advt.) Men's shoes are walking off the shelves at Hanna's. 1948 Winnipeg Free Press 1 Oct. 2/8 [Costs of doing business] were higher than during the war ‘when merchandise just walked off the shelves’. 1986 O. Clark Diary 12 Oct. (1998) 197 She loves the clothes and reckons they would walk out of the shop. 1998 Independent 20 Apr. ii. 4/2 We asked the shops..to give us the low-down on what's walking out of their stores right now. 2000 Math. Gaz. 84 372 This book walked off the shelves so rapidly that a reprint was necessary before this review could be published. < as lemmas |
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