plain sailing

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Trading oil at present is no plain sailing because transiting a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz is no plain sailing, either.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Not all of Alcaraz's career has been plain sailing.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

The album may have taken less than two weeks to record, but you get the impression from other interviews that the process wasn't entirely plain sailing.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Yet it has not all been plain sailing.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

"Then," thought she, "all might be plain sailing before me."

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