英语词汇“plain sailing”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

plain sailing

noun [mass noun, often with negative]

Smooth and easy progress in a process or activity: team-building was not all plain sailing...

I was expecting it all to be quite hard work but, in a surprising show of bureaucratic efficiency, it was mostly smooth and plain sailing.
But the passage of the plan through the bureaucratic process was not all plain sailing.
Reading some of their newspaper columns, it is clear that the tour has not been plain sailing by any means.

Synonyms

uncomplicated, straightforward, simple, easy, effortless, painless, undemanding, unexacting;

elementary, a five-finger exercise, child's play;

routine

informal as easy as falling off a log, as easy as pie, as easy as ABC, a piece of cake, a cinch, a snip, easy-peasy, no sweat, a doddle, money for old rope, money for jam, kids' stuff, a breeze, a doss, a cakewalk

North American informal duck soup, a snap

Australian/New Zealand informal a bludge, a snack

South African informal a piece of old tackle

Origin

Mid 18th century: probably a popular use of plane sailing, denoting the practice of determining a ship's position on the theory that it is moving on a plane.

单词	plain sailing
释义	plain sailing noun [mass noun, often with negative] Smooth and easy progress in a process or activity: team-building was not all plain sailing... I was expecting it all to be quite hard work but, in a surprising show of bureaucratic efficiency, it was mostly smooth and plain sailing. But the passage of the plan through the bureaucratic process was not all plain sailing. Reading some of their newspaper columns, it is clear that the tour has not been plain sailing by any means. Synonyms uncomplicated, straightforward, simple, easy, effortless, painless, undemanding, unexacting; elementary, a five-finger exercise, child's play; routine informal as easy as falling off a log, as easy as pie, as easy as ABC, a piece of cake, a cinch, a snip, easy-peasy, no sweat, a doddle, money for old rope, money for jam, kids' stuff, a breeze, a doss, a cakewalk North American informal duck soup, a snap Australian/New Zealand informal a bludge, a snack South African informal a piece of old tackle Origin Mid 18th century: probably a popular use of plane sailing, denoting the practice of determining a ship's position on the theory that it is moving on a plane.
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