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The expression "smooth sail" is correct and can be used in written English
It is an idiom that means to progress without any difficulties. For example: I'm finally at the end of my long journey and I'm so glad the rest of the way is a smooth sail.
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Smooth sailing.
If something is smooth sailing, then you can progress without difficulty.
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His new book to us (in Italy it is already penultimate) is "La Folie Baudelaire," with the folly perhaps as much Calasso's as Charles Baudelaire's, equaled only by that of the unsuspecting reader embarking on a hoped-for smooth sail.
The usual smooth sail to Mexico every January for BPM the notorious festival in Playa Del Carmen where you eat an inconceivable amount of tacos and shit your insides out in the middle of the Mayan ruins would be considerably harder.
"By and large, communities are responding, but it's not always a smooth sail," says Dr. M. Dawood, a health official from the WHO.
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Smooth sailing, Captain!
From there, smooth sailing.
Smooth sailing from then on?
Then it's smooth sailing.
Now it's smooth sailing".
"It's been smooth sailing".
It should have been smooth sailing.
That alone could ensure smooth sailing.
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