feasibility &c (practicability) 470; flexibility, pliancy &c 324;
smoothness &c 255.
plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's
play, holiday task; cinch [U.S.].
smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear
stage; tabula rasa [Lat.]; full play &c (freedom) 748.
disencumbrance†, disentanglement; deoppilation†; permission &c 760.
simplicity, lack of complication.
V. be easy &c adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play &c n.;
go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.
flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream,
go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's
way; have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk
over the course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make
no bones of.
be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do
it in one's sleep &c (skillful) 698.
render easy &c adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize;
lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass,
disentangle, disengage; deobstruct†, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie
the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free
from, deoppilate†; humor &c (aid) 707; lubricate &c 332; relieve &c 834.
leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter
open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for;
open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground,
clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the
way, bridge over; permit &c 760.
Adj. easy, facile; feasible &c (practicable) 470; easily managed,
easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the
million, open to.
manageable, wieldy; towardly†, tractable; submissive; yielding,
ductile; suant†; pliant &c (soft) 324; glib, slippery; smooth &c 255; on
friction wheels, on velvet.
unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered,
unencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed,
untrammeled; unrestrained &c (free) 748; at ease, light.
[able to do easily] at home with; quite at home; in one's element,
in smooth water; skillful &c 698; accustomed &c 613.
Adv. easily &c adj.; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms,
single-handed.
Phr. touch and go.