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GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it
Example:
She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "go through the motions" is one way to...):
make; make believe; pretend (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s