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do a land-office business
do a land-office business
Fig. to do a large amount of buying or selling in a short period of time. The icecream shop always does a land-office business on a hot day. The tax collector's office did a land-office business on the day that taxes were due.
do a land-office business
(American old-fashioned) if a company does a land-office business, they are very successful in selling their product They only set up the company eight months ago and they're doing a land-office business.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Besnik | | - | Albanian |
Doe | | [dəu] | |
Kurt | | KUWRT (German), KURT (English) | German, English |
Rokurou | | ṙo-koo-ṙo: | Japanese |
Alfonso | | ahl-FON-so (Spanish), ahl-FAWN-so (Italian) | Spanish, Italian |
KerİM | | - | Turkish |