clear sailing meaning: definition, quotations

clear sailing

noun

A situation where one can proceed with no serious problems.

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.2001, Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel, The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, →ISBN:
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.1975, Bettina Bien Greaves, Free Market Economics: A Syllabus, →ISBN, page 37:

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This likelihood did not mean, however, that 1938 brought clear sailing for Senate bill 5.2015, Charles O. Jackson, Food and Drug Legislation in the New Deal, →ISBN, page 171: