"fly off the shelves" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-fly off the shelves.ogg Forms: flies off the shelves [present, singular, third-person], flying off the shelves [participle, present], flew off the shelves [past], flown off the shelves [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> off the shelves}} fly off the shelves (third-person singular simple present flies off the shelves, present participle flying off the shelves, simple past flew off the shelves, past participle flown off the shelves)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic, of a product) To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Related terms: sell like hot cakes
    Sense id: en-fly_off_the_shelves-en-verb-uQ6ANoDQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      "form": "flew off the shelves",
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      "form": "flown off the shelves",
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        "To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly."
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic, of a product) To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly."
      ],
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