smooth sailing

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Noun

smooth sailing (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems.

   Synonym: plain sailing

   It's all been smooth sailing; everything has gone exactly according to plan.

   We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so.

   • 2013, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 315:

     Not that all was smooth sailing for MGM in Nazi Germany.

Translations

easily, without problems

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一帆風順／一帆风顺 (zh) (yīfānfēngshùn)

• Finnish: sujuva (fi) (adjective), ruusuilla tanssimista (always in negative)
• Japanese: 順風満帆 (ja) (junpūmanpan)
• Portuguese: suave na nave
• Spanish: camino de rosas