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It's plain sailing

French translation: Comme sur des roulettes

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English term or phrase:	It's plain sailing
French translation:	Comme sur des roulettes
Entered by:	Layla de Chabot

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19:11 Jun 23, 2011

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English term or phrase: It's plain sailing

1. At 3:33pm on 21 Jun 2011, Junko san wrote:

Good programme to learn idioms! Memorizing new words are so hard, I recently feel that I already missed the boat. But I will keep studying until I feel it's plain sailing.

fabrice41 KudoZ activity Questions: 71 (none open) Answers: 0
Local time: 13:37

Comme sur des roulettes

Explanation:
voir lien

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Layla de Chabot
France
Local time: 13:37

Grading comment

Merci.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +3

Comme sur des roulettes

Layla de Chabot

4 +3

jusqu'à ce que tout coule de source

Johanne Bouthillier

(jusqu'à ce que) tout se passe bien/pour le mieux

Stéphanie Denton

jusque au moment où cela devient naturel / irréfléchi /machinal/ spontané...

Arnaud Caudal

jusqu'à ce que cela devienne un jeu d'enfant.

Marion Feildel

avoir le dessus

MadameDequoi

Answers

3 mins confidence:

it's plain sailing (jusqu'à ce que) tout se passe bien/pour le mieux

Explanation:
Ce qui vient à l'esprit.

Stéphanie Denton
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

it's plain sailing

Comme sur des roulettes

Explanation:
voir lien

Reference: http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/plain_...

Layla de Chabot
France
Local time: 13:37
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Merci.

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

it's plain sailing jusqu'à ce que tout coule de source

Explanation:
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Johanne Bouthillier
Local time: 07:37
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 15

1 hr confidence:

it's plain sailing jusque au moment où cela devient naturel / irréfléchi /machinal/ spontané...

Explanation:
autre possibilité: sur le bout des doigts

Arnaud Caudal
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of:

French

4 hrs confidence:

it's plain sailing avoir le dessus

Explanation:
étudier jusqu'à temps que j'aie le dessus.

MadameDequoi
Local time: 07:37
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

9 hrs confidence:

it's plain sailing jusqu'à ce que cela devienne un jeu d'enfant.

Explanation:
A défaut d'une expression idiomatique française dans le domaine de la navigation.

Example sentence(s):

« Jeu d'enfant » est une expression synonyme de facile (qui est susceptible d'être réalisé même par un enfant).

Marion Feildel
Turkey
Local time: 14:37
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 11

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Changes made by editors

Jun 28, 2011 - Changes made by Layla de Chabot:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term
Jun 24, 2011 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Field (specific)	Internet, e-Commerce => Idioms / Maxims / Sayings

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