Select the most appropriate idiom for the underlined word segment. The poor chef did not believe that his simple recipe would be sold quickly and in large quantities and he could earn such a profit.
Sell like hot cakes
What the underlined words mean: that something is bought up rapidly and in great numbers.
The answer. Sell like hot cakes means exactly that — to sell very quickly and in large quantities, from the image of hot cakes being snapped up at a fair. Substituted in, the sentence reads ‘his simple recipe would sell like hot cakes’.
Why the others fail:
Piece of cake — the one to guard against, since it shares the word cake. But it means something very easy to do, describing difficulty rather than demand. A shared word is not a shared meaning.
Up in arms — angry and protesting about something; concerns indignation, not sales.
Run around in circles — to be busy without achieving anything, the opposite of the profitable success described.
Takeaway: when one option echoes a word from another option or from the sentence, treat that echo with suspicion rather than as a clue.
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