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After so many days, I did not expect that the epidemic situation in Wuhan has become more and more serious. Whether it is masks for going out, alcohol disinfectant for disinfection, or antiviral oral liquid, they are basically sold out.

How can we express this kind of "hot product" that sells out of stock in English?

1. fly off the fixtures, popular item, best-selling

Canned mushrooms were mentioned in the previous article "How do you say "shelf life" in English? Anyway, it's not "protect date". I have mentioned the word "shelf", which mainly means "shelf". Fly off the shelves means the goods are very popular.

When WP7 hit Thailand it flew off the shelves and quickly sold out.

When wp7 entered the Thai market, the shelves were sold out overnight.

2.off the shelves ready-made, not customized

fly off the shelves Without fly, it means "not on the shelf", which means that the thing is not made in advance. Therefore, off the shelves means that the thing is "freshly made".

If you have complex needs, we don't recommend that you buy software off the shelf.

If you have very complex needs, we do not recommend that you purchase non-customized software.

3.on the shelf idle, no one wants

Off the shelves means "not custom-made", so on the contrary, on the shelf is the antonym of "custom-made"? In fact, it is not. On the shelf mainly means that things have been placed on the shelf and no one buys them. Therefore, it means that things are "idle and no one wants them." (This word sometimes refers to those "singles" that no one wants...a very hateful word)

In those days, if you hadn't married by the time you were 30, you were definitely on the shelf.

In the past, if you were not married by the age of 30, no one wanted you.

4.shelf life shelf life

By the way, let's talk about another term for "shelf life". Shelf is "shelf", so shelf life is "the length of time it can be placed on the shelf", which can be understood as "shelf life".

Mature flour has a longer shelf life.

Cooked flour has a longer shelf life.