"smooth sailing" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's all been smooth sailing; everything has gone exactly according to plan.",
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          "text": "We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so.",
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          "ref": "2013, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, Columbia University Press, page 315",
          "text": "Not that all was smooth sailing for MGM in Nazi Germany.",
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        "Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems."
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        "(idiomatic, uncountable) Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems."
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          "word": "plain sailing"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "一帆風順"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "yīfānfēngshùn",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "一帆风顺"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
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          "word": "sujuva"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "always in negative",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "ruusuilla tanssimista"
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "junpūmanpan",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "順風満帆"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "suave na nave"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "easily, without problems",
          "word": "camino de rosas"
        }
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  "word": "smooth sailing"
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          "text": "It's all been smooth sailing; everything has gone exactly according to plan.",
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          "text": "We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so.",
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        "Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems."
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        "(idiomatic, uncountable) Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems."
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "一帆風順"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yīfānfēngshùn",
      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "一帆风顺"
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      "sense": "easily, without problems",
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      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "ruusuilla tanssimista"
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      "roman": "junpūmanpan",
      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "順風満帆"
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "suave na nave"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "easily, without problems",
      "word": "camino de rosas"
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  "word": "smooth sailing"
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