- clear sailing
- No obstacles.► “Economic reform is never clear sailing, and the tax reform in China is no exception.” (International Tax Journal, Winter 1995, p. 39)
American business jargon. 2014.
clear sailing
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clear sailing — noun easy unobstructed progress after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing • Syn: ↑plain sailing, ↑easy going • Hypernyms: ↑progress, ↑progression, ↑procession, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
clear sailing — mod. easy; easy going. □ It’ll be clear sailing from now on. □ When this is finished, it’ll be clear sailing … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
clear sailing — See smooth sailing … English idioms
(be) clear sailing — be clear ˈsailing idiom (US) = ↑plain sailing ↑plain adj. Main entry: ↑clearidiom … Useful english dictionary
Sailing — is the art of controlling a sailing vessel. By changing the rigging, rudder and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat. Mastery of the skill requires… … Wikipedia
Clear Lake (Iowa) — Clear Lake Location Cerro Gordo County, Iowa Coordinates 43°07′32″N 93°25′29″W … Wikipedia
Sailing to Byzantium — is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower . It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten syllable lines. It depicts a portion of an old man’s journey to Constantinople. Through this … Wikipedia
Sailing By — is a short piece of light music composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, which is familiar to British radio listeners.Context and usage Sailing By is played every night on BBC Radio 4 at around 00:45hrs before the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is… … Wikipedia
Sailing faster than the wind — Devices that are powered by sails (such as sailboats, iceboats and sand yachts) can sail (that is, advance over the surface) faster than the wind.[1] Such devices cannot do this when sailing dead downwind using simple square sails that are set… … Wikipedia
smooth sailing — See: PLAIN SAILING … Dictionary of American idioms
