Selling like Hot Cakes, what a daft term?

[Akimbo]

Collectively: "Empty vessels make most noise!"

Jude xx

 

[holmca]

The 'brush' referred someone with a learning difficulty employed to sweep up in a factory, hence the 'daft'. It's horrifically un-PC now!

I am not sure that this phrase is quite as bad as that - see this link:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-daft-as-a-brush.html

Whilst talking of brushes one of my favourite is "like a birch broom in a fit".

http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Birch Broom In A Fit

 

[TrixieWoo]

As much use as a cat flap on a submarine