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smooth sailing
Easy progress, as in We had a hard time setting up the new computer system but it'll be smooth sailing from here on. The smooth in this idiom alludes to calm waters, free from big waves or roughness, a usage dating from the late 1300s. The transfer to other kinds of easy progress dates from the second half of the 1900s. Also see plain sailing.
Example Sentences
It hasn't always been smooth sailing, however.
And for my legs, this stretch was smooth sailing.
Catcher Cashel Dugger handled dropped-third strikes from righty August Souza to make it smooth sailing in the eighth.
But Tullis-Joyce says it has not all been smooth sailing.
It hasn't been smooth sailing for the Bromley-based Lionesses, yo-yoing between second and eighth in the table during their first five seasons and going through five permanent managers - and three interims - prior to Precheur's arrival from Paris St-Germain in June 2024.
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