plain sailing

Example Sentences

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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

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

It was never going to be plain sailing.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

There have been reports that not everything has been plain sailing.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

When the boy had gone, Alie turned the conversation into another channel, and after that all was plain sailing once more.

From The Beautiful White Devil by Boothby, Guy Newell