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smooth as silk



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Idioms and Phrases

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 .
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If all is as smooth as silk so far for Slot, the same cannot be said for his fellow Dutchman Erik ten Hag, who survived a summer review after winning the FA Cup against Manchester City.

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Once the dust settles on this incident-packed encounter, there was still so much to admire about Arsenal's performance as they cruised around Anfield as smooth as silk for the first 40 minutes, previous nightmares here seemingly banished from the memory.

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I knew I wanted a cheesecake that was smooth as silk, not overly sweet and achievable by even cheesecake novices who may be wary of the water bath they’re often baked in.

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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.

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"We had those ten years where we were growing smooth as silk," Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said on a streamed earnings call, according to an AFP report.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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