easy sledding

Idioms  

1. Effortless progress, as in It's easy sledding from here on. This expression alludes to coasting smoothly down a hill and was first recorded as smooth sledding in 1898. Also see the antonym tough sledding.

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Example Sentences

The configuration, then, shows that the pueblo sloped by easy decline to the plain to the north, but rose more abruptly from the south and west.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

It is strange that I who daily witness such dreadful suffering should be pained by the gradual and easy decline of Amabel.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

From this lake a sixty-foot wear was to deal out the water-supply to the mill-owners below, and the surplus to the people of Hillsborough, distant about eight miles on an easy decline.

From Put Yourself in His Place by Reade, Charles