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Romanian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Marketing / Market Research / Market | |||||||
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4 +6 | do a roaring trade |
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4 +5 | boom car sales |
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4 +1 | be going great guns |
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do a roaring trade Explanation: or sell like hot cakes -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 mins (2009-05-02 14:07:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Longman Language Activator do a roaring trade - a British expression: if a shop or a person that sells a particular type of goods is doing a roaring trade, they are selling large quantities of goods because a lot of people suddenly want to buy them e.g. The shops outside the station were doing a roaring trade in umbrellas. sell like hot cakes - an informal expression: if a product is selling like hot cakes, it is being sold very quickly and in large amounts because people very much want to buy it. e.g. The new book, which reveals intimate details about Princess Diana s private life, is selling like hot cakes in New York. |
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