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plain sailing

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If you say that a task was not all plain sailing, you mean that it was not very easy.
Pregnancy wasn't all plain sailing and once again there were problems.
We know it won't be plain sailing because there are no easy games at this level.
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plain sailing in British English

noun
1.  informal
smooth or easy progress
2.  nautical
sailing in a body of water that is unobstructed; clear sailing
Compare plane sailing

plain sailing in American English

1. 
sailing on an unobstructed course
2. 
a smooth, clear course of action

plain sailing

or smooth sailing
easy to do or achieve
Once I got used to the diet it was plain sailing. I lost 2 stones in weight overa four month period and the weight loss has been maintained.

Examples of 'plain sailing' in a sentence
plain sailing

Not that it will be plain sailing from here on.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Last season was far from plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But it’s not all been plain sailing.
Computing (2010)
We are on a little blip but we knew coming into this season that it would not be plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It will not be plain sailing.
The Sun (2016)
Not that it's exactly plain sailing once the hopefuls are picked.
The Sun (2016)
No one suggested Brexit would be plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Yet it is not going to be plain sailing in the coming months.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Surely it will be all plain sailing now.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Not that it was all plain sailing for the men in red.
The Sun (2015)
Not that it is going to be plain sailing from here on in.
The Sun (2013)
It will be far from plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It has not all been plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Her experience has not been all plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But success has not all been plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But it will not be plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It looked plain sailing for declarer.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So it won't be plain sailing to the altar then?
The Sun (2011)
It hasn't all been plain sailing for them.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His filmed trip round Blighty has not all been plain sailing.
The Sun (2009)
He became a wealthy man, but it was not all plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Has it all been plain sailing for Hayward?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Did they have hidden lives, or was it all plain sailing?
Paige, Frances The Glasgow Girls (1994)
But it was anything but plain sailing on the par-five second.
The Sun (2015)
It won't be plain sailing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It won't be plain sailing but you have the strength to fight back and turn the negative into the positive, impressing all.
The Sun (2016)
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