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fly off the shelves

fly off the shelves verb: to be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.

Verb

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)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.

Forms of fly off the shelves

third-person singular presentflies off the shelves
present participleflying off the shelves
pastflew off the shelves
past participleflown off the shelves

Questions about fly off the shelves

What does fly off the shelves mean?
Fly off the shelves means to be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.
What part of speech is fly off the shelves?
Fly off the shelves is a verb.
What is the past tense of fly off the shelves?
The past tense of fly off the shelves is flew off the shelves.

Words near fly off the shelves in the dictionary

  1. fly lofts
  2. fly low
  3. fly off
  4. fly off at a tangent
  5. fly off the handle
  6. fly off the shelves
  7. fly on the wall
  8. fly orchid
  9. fly orchids
  10. fly out
  11. fly out of the blocks

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