Idiom
smooth sailing
Meaning
Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“After the first week, everything was smooth sailing.”
“The project had a difficult start, but now that the team is working well together, it is smooth sailing.”
“Once the initial legal challenges were resolved, the remainder of the merger process proved to be smooth sailing for the company.”
Examples
simple
“After the first week, everything was smooth sailing.”
contextual
“The project had a difficult start, but now that the team is working well together, it is smooth sailing.”
complex
“Once the initial legal challenges were resolved, the remainder of the merger process proved to be smooth sailing for the company.”
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