From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsail through something phrasal verbSEPASS A TESTto succeed very easily in a test, examination etc Adam sailed through his final exams. → sail→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
sail through • But the relatively small civil service portion could sail through, if Republicans sign on to them.• One more tumbling, twisting trip sailing through the air.• Do any old codgers sail through the course?• The United States insists it has the right to sail through the international waters of the strait.• Philip Jimeno offered the bill, expecting it to sail through the legislature.• Marie Brown thought she was one of the fortunate ones to sail through unaffected.• The imaginary central point in the sail through which the power of the sail acts.• By contrast, his present legislation is expected to sail through with little more than some scattered shots from the Parti Québécois.