the coast is clear
coast
verb[ I ]
us/koʊst/

coastverb[I] (MOVE EASILY)

(of a vehicle) to continue moving from its own forward force, without the addition of any power:
He coasted to a stop.
To coast is also to advance without effort:
She coasted through her senior year of high school.

coast | Business English

coast
noun[ C ]
uk /kəʊst/us
the land next to or close to the sea:
The oil spill happened just off the Spanish coast.
the east/west coastHe grew up on the west coast, in California.
 coast to coast
TRANSPORT
from one coast of a country or continent to the opposite coast:
We travelled across America coast to coast.
mainly US
in every part of a country:
Our products are sought after from coast to coast for their accuracy and reliability.

Examples of coast

coast
On neither coast, however, do fisher training programs provide a positive and significant impact in terms of technical efficiency.
Soldattorpet on the west coast provides a comparable vertical stratigraphy for the same period.
There was little natural differentiation on the west coast, and one place was as good as another for the establishment of a trading place.
It is situated atop a low but steep mountain ridge that rises above the relatively remote and sparsely populated nor theastern coast of the island.
Figure 5 depicts the maximum wave amplitude around the coast of an elliptical island whose major axis is twice the minor axis.
In addition, larger vessels home port in larger urban areas rather than in the traditional fishing villages and hamlets strung along the coast.
But the difference of the constituencies was not one between mountain and coast but, primarily, one between city and countryside.
The ravages of coast and countryside, the toll on vegetation, crops and buildings, were mediated by the television screen.
Some perturbations tend to 'break ' seaward by developing large transverse velocities away from the coast.
Gaining mastery over the challenges of the coast represents the next step in the development of tidal rice-growing technology.
If there is a more serious and recur rent concern, it is the continuing and dramatic erosion along much of this coast.
Furthermore, in the shallow water, refraction implies that loci of constant phase are usually nearly parallel to the local coast line.
All along the coast, in the small harbours, a lot of pleasure-boats a bit sophisticals are bobbing up and down beside the fishermen's boats.
This line was measured by way of base points and baselines in various places on the respective coasts.
In the small bays of the rugged coast, the hydrodynamic - and thus sedimentary - conditions are very calm, leading to accumulation of fine-grained, organic-rich marineaffected material.
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Collocations withcoast

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central coast
Central coast consumers want more foodrelated information, from safety to ethics.
coast artillery
Following the abolition of coast artillery they were no longer required.
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