"clear sailing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel, The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors",
          "text": "But it was not all clear sailing. When Mandel wrote Mrs. Roosevelt on March 18, 1941, exposing the China Aid Committee as a Communist front, she wrote back, “I do not understand what you are trying to bring to my attention.",
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          "ref": "1975, Bettina Bien Greaves, Free Market Economics: A Syllabus, page 37",
          "text": "Once the students understand the connection between the subjective values of individuals, their actions, and market prices, the rest of the course should be relatively clear sailing.",
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          "ref": "2015, Charles O. Jackson, Food and Drug Legislation in the New Deal, page 171",
          "text": "This likelihood did not mean, however, that 1938 brought clear sailing for Senate bill 5.",
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        "A situation where one can proceed with no serious problems."
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