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smooth sailing
Idioms and Phrases
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 was smooth sailing at first—until walkers in SWAT-like uniforms amble onto the scene.
Expect smooth sailing for any literal reconstruction or repair.
However, it wasn't such smooth sailing for Top Chef itself this season.
It is for the Weehawken to clear the channel, and make smooth sailing for the remainder of the fleet.
They now had clear, though not smooth sailing for some nine or ten miles, when they came to another fall.
Theres never all smooth sailing, with maid and man for a crew.
After the passage of this law it was smooth sailing for Pope.
All was not smooth sailing, literally as well as figuratively speaking.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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