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downhill

2 adjective
     
downhill2
1 on a slope that goes down to a lower point [≠ uphill]:
downhill skiing
It's a long walk back, but at least it's all downhill.
2

be all downhill (from here)/be downhill all the way (from here)

to be easy to do, because you have already done the hard part:
The worst is over - it's all downhill from here.
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