plain sailing
Example Sentences
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In the post, Greg said he wanted to share the personal update as "life isn't plain sailing but we've got to carry on".
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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.
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It was never going to be plain sailing.
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There have been reports that not everything has been plain sailing.
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Yet it has not all been plain sailing.
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