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through the motions
Idioms and Phrases
see go through the motions .Example Sentences
What an incredible way to spend your time, because I've had other jobs that have felt like going through the motions or whatever.
I am just going through the motions, pushing forward with a fake-it-till-I-make-it kind of attitude, believing once this week鈥檚 鈥榳eather bomb鈥 is over 鈥 or 鈥渂ombogenesis,鈥 or another menacing, meteorologists鈥 coined name thrown out for the latest explosive, fast-strengthening, impending-doom hyped storm, that my worry will subside.
The reality was there for all to see as a squad lacking energy laboured and went through the motions in training.
Said Curl: 鈥淲e鈥檙e basically going against a starter every day in practice. ... It鈥檚 not like we鈥檙e going through the motions with the scout team.鈥
Earlier Biden rallies had the feeling of supporters going through the motions, supporting his pro-labor policies, perhaps, but none too enthused about fielding an 81-year-old for president.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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