fly off the shelves in English

Audio: en-au-fly off the shelves.ogg

[Australia] 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] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

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)

Inflected forms

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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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"fly off the shelves" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms