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GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS

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• GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS (verb)
The verb GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS has 1 sense:

1. pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it

Familiarity information: GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS used as a verb is very rare.

• GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions

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

"Fine feathers make fine birds."
(English proverb)
"Drop by drop - a whole lake becomes."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"What you cannot see during the day, you will not see at night."
(West African proverb)
"Morning is smarter than evening."
(Croatian proverb)

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