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Definition of Clear sailing
1. Noun. Easy unobstructed progress. "After we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"
Generic synonyms: Advance, Advancement, Forward Motion, Onward Motion, Procession, Progress, Progression
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clear Sailing
Literary usage of Clear sailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United by William Powell Mason (1846)
"The word place makes the meaning of the legislature clear. Sailing from a place, &c.
is made criminal. What is the wharf or dock in the harbor where the ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"Then followed days upon days of clear sailing, broken now and then by a stop at
Central American ports, sometimes for a few ..."
3. Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer: An Old-time Sailor of the Sea by John Randolph Spears (1922)
"In making a passage, as from New York to Boston, the vessel usually had clear
sailing until within ..."
4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1857)
"... eighty miles would be found perfectly clear sailing, and the current slight;
then would succeed, near the confluence of the ..."
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