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	Pronounced	Usage
GwenaËLle	-	French, Breton
Kwaku	-	Western African, Akan
Ella	['elə]
Keith	KEETH	English, Scottish
Ioab	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Ioane	-	Georgian (Archaic)