swimmingly

1. (figuratively, informal) In a very favorable manner; without difficulty; agreeably, successfully.Examples: "[…] I'faith; how ſwimmingly would this pretty little / Ambling Filly carry a man of my body!"; "The secretary would not go so far to satisfy the whigs in the house of commons; but there all went swimmingly."; "[T]he negociation goes on swimmingly—inasmuch as there is no prospect of its ever coming to a close. Nothing is lost by these delays and obstacles but time; and in a negociation, according to the theory I have exposed, all time lost, is in reality so much time gained—with what delightful paradoxes, does the modern arcana of political economy abound!"Synonyms: like clockwork, smoothly, without a hitchfigurativelyinformal