plain sailing
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It hasn't all been plain sailing - already two councillors, Steve Lewis and Rhys Carr, have left Reform to sit as independents, and a third, Nick Farmer, has been suspended by the party.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
More recently they drew with Thomas Tuchel's England in a friendly at Wembley, but it has not all been plain sailing for Uruguay under Bielsa.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
But it has not all been plain sailing for Hodgkinson since she won the Olympic 800m title at Paris 2024.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
"It's all plain sailing now," he remarked approvingly; and sallying out into the street, we regained the quay.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
