plain-sailing

But, to the contrary, their evident desire to obfuscate rather than clarify means that they know that the funding of these deficits is likely to be far from plain-sailing.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008

The thing was not plain-sailing, as Jack Muskham and the pukka sahibs supposed, with their superstition that black was not white, and so on.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain-sailing Precedent of keeping the light up.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

However, we are under no illusion that the transition to democracy will be plain-sailing.

JANUARY THE 8th STATEMENT OF THE ANC 1992

However, we are under no illusion that the transition to democracy will be plain-sailing.

THE OCCASION OF THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1992

In fact, though Miss Prissy enjoyed the fair average plain-sailing of her work, she might be said to _revel_ in difficulties.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

I found him an agreeable, gentlemanly person in society, and a plain-sailing parson in the pulpit.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

The Letter is written by a plain-sailing, plain-dealing man of the world, and though on a foreign topic, is in a homely style.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various

Grant was only natural, since the latter had, by ingratiating manners, flashy advertising dodges, and a few modern tricks of trade, ruined the business of the old-fashioned, plain-sailing German.

Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

When we are getting on too smoothly at school, or at our work, it all begins to feel such easy plain-sailing, that we rest on our oars and grow over-confident.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell