clear sailing

English

Noun

clear sailing (uncountable)

1. A situation where one can proceed with no serious problems.
   • 2001, Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel, The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, →ISBN:

     But it was not all clear sailing. When Mandel wrote Mrs. Roosevelt on March 18, 1941, exposing the China Aid Committee as a Communist front, she wrote back, “I do not understand what you are trying to bring to my attention.

   • 1975, Bettina Bien Greaves, Free Market Economics: A Syllabus, →ISBN, page 37:

     Once the students understand the connection between the subjective values of individuals, their actions, and market prices, the rest of the course should be relatively clear sailing.

   • 2015, Charles O. Jackson, Food and Drug Legislation in the New Deal, →ISBN, page 171:

     This likelihood did not mean, however, that 1938 brought clear sailing for Senate bill 5.