smooth as silk

Idioms

Lacking impediments or obstacles, unhindered, as in The negotiations went smooth as silk. This simile alludes to the slippery quality of silk. [c. 1900] Also see smooth sailing.

Example Sentences

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The second run was smooth as silk — a pair of double-cork 1080s to start, his famed comma-shaped "sky hook" in the middle, then the Tomahawk and then another double-cork 1260 to cap it off.

From Fox News • Feb. 9, 2022

Best villain in a bad movie: Hugo Weaving, smooth as silk as the lead evildoer in “Mortal Engines.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2019

"He also can be smooth as silk, respectful and deferential," Mr Quinn added.

From BBC • May 24, 2017

My house is 100 years old and still has its original front door lockset, lock-and-key, brass-on-brass, smooth as silk.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2014

Hume pulled as smooth as silk, and with the precise, mechanical regularity of a metronome.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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