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land-office business
noun as in seller's market
Example Sentences
“It has the highest per capita consumption of ‘gourmet’ coffee beans … Now there are 35 Starbucks in the Seattle area that continue to do a land-office business.”
For days, department stores, electrical appliance stores, the Sherman Clay piano store, even the jewelry store Weisfield & Goldberg had been doing a land-office business selling new Philco 61F Olympic Special cabinet radios.
Almost since the label was founded in 2008 it has done land-office business.
“They seem to be doing a land-office business,” observed Walter.
He even had letter heads and envelopes printed as though he might be doing a land-office business in purchasing such commodities.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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