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Do you say "Clear Sailing" or "Plain Sailing"? Me and my mate both think we are right but I thought I'd ask you all to see what you think :D

I just went to www.dictionary.com and it says it's the same thing basically -

1 entry found for "Clear sailing".

Clear sailing

n : easy unobstructed progress: "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"

I say "plain sailing"

"It's all plain sailing from here"

Suppose, just wondering which one people use. :D

True yes, but wont plain sailing also mean, nothing but sailing...
Nothing else???

True, I don't understand how you can have plain sailing though. When I hear the word "Plain" I think of things like plain bread heh Clear sailing suggests clear skies to me though so I guess that's why I say it.

I dont really thing there is a right or wrong answer to this, i suppose people will say what ever they feel easier with. Plain Sailing...Clear sailing everybody is different ;)

Just say them both, there is no real right or wrong, and i dont think that many (if any) people will mind...

My English teacher said clear sailing so I used that in my review of the EyeToy but then my Mate said it was plain sailing. It's probably one of these things that they are both right. Then again I could just be horribly wrong and my teacher had a temporary laps in intellect...or maybe she was reading an American book. So many possibilities heh.

Plain sailing i say, but come to think about it i hear people say them both all the time, i think?

Defenetly, Plain Sailing !!!!