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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
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's time at the helm of the largest executive department has been anything but smooth sailing.
Other than that, it has been smooth sailing for Mr Wood, who said his biggest challenge so far has been trying to pass the time - especially with so little to see on the open ocean.
It hasn’t been smooth sailing in the music press though.
Even with the tech in its current, more limited state, it hasn't all been smooth sailing though.
But it hasn't all been smooth sailing in the platform's two decades.
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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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