to be in smooth water
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to experience no or very few difficulties or disruptions, particularly after a period of hardship
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Idiom
Informal
例
We'll be in smooth waters if we can secure a new loan extension from the bank.
Ever since they implemented the new procedures, the project has been in smooth water.
