Similar words: pay through the nose, through thick and thin, rush through, push through, go through, through and through, through to, go through with. Meaning: v. pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it.
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1 You can go through the motions.
2 The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.
3 The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction, or with subversion and disdain.
4 We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us.
5 Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
6 The police would go through the motions, but they wouldn't make a meal of it.
7 I go to work each day just to go through the motions and collect a paycheck.
8 I remembered what it felt like to go through the motions of adult life, hoping that I was doing things the right way.
9 Children like to go through the motions of adults; it is a way of learning.
10 They go through the motions of releasing the latch from the space station.
11 Most have go - or at least go through the motions.
12 Actors go through the motions of different types of labor.
13 Just pay my dues, mature some more, and go through the motions.
14 Must insist the high standard throughout, prevents to go through the motions, the deviation.
15 There are many teachers in schools and colleges who seem duller than the dullest of their pupils; they go through the motions of teaching, but they are as impersonal as a telephone.
16 I don't want to do this,[www.Sentencedict.com] but I think I'd better go through the motions.
17 A boy graduates from school, a daughter gets married. We go through the motions of the ceremony, but we don't seek out our children and find a quiet moment to tell them what they have meant to us.
18 The research also notes how common it is for managers to know in advance who will be promoted, even when they go through the motions of considering several candidates.
19 I'm convinced the new method won't work but I'll still have go through the motions.
20 At best, children get involved in sports, but many merely go through the motions of a physical education class and barely learn how to do push ups and sit ups.
21 'She looks a LOT like her friend, ' I'm thinking as we go through the motions of introducing ourselves.
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