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Idioms and Phrases

Also, sail right through . Accomplish quickly and easily, make easy progress through, as in He sailed through the written test in no time , or We sailed right through customs . This expression alludes to a boat moving quickly and easily through the water. [Mid-1900s]
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Amanda sailed through the very first series of Traitors in 2023, with her opponents swearing hand on heart that the humble character could never be a traitor.

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Dicker’s kick sailed through the uprights for a 57-yard field goal.

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A San Francisco rusher got a fingertip on the ball but it sailed through the goalposts with more than enough distance.

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The original design, made public in 2021, had sailed through the Public Arts Commission and the Palm Springs City Council, and some 400 donors had raised more than half of the memorial’s $600,000 budget.

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Since hurricanes, floods, wildfires and earthquakes don’t discriminate between red states and blue, much less between red or blue households, it used to be that federal disaster-relief bills would sail through Congress with unanimous support.

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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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