plain sailing

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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

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 has not all been plain sailing, of course, since Howe's appointment or the takeover a few weeks prior.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

I don't think it's going to be a plain sailing future.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

"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 Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)