swimmingly

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"Everything is going on swimmingly, my smart nephew," said Clameran;

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  1. adverb With great ease and success: Things are going swimmingly.

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  • But even if things recover swimmingly, the psychological damage has already been done. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • So everything was going swimmingly, apart from I couldn't get even 24 hours of monitoring on my conservative 3 times a day schedule, and the Bluetooth modem configured for all of its power saving options, and the water sensor itself only being powered on when it was performing a check. —  Planet Debian
  • / 29 Wizards vs DC - The Wizards opened 2008 swimmingly, as their two new signings, Ivan Trujillo and Claudio Lopez both scored to help the Wizards to a big opening day win over DC. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • "If things are going swimmingly, then you don't have the opportunity to serve as much as you do in situations like this," she said. —  Blogger KING
  • And I'm happy to report that it all went swimmingly, and we didn't fall out once. —  Home | Mail Online
 

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/ˈswɪmɪŋli/
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