land-office business
Example Sentences
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Almost since the label was founded in 2008 it has done land-office business.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2014
Loan offices had expected to do a land-office business.
From Time Magazine Archive
But investigators are still doing a land-office business.
From Time Magazine Archive
So many actresses were arriving in Philadelphia that anyone who noticed might have thought that some face lifter or take-it-off ranch was doing land-office business.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
