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go through the motions

DEFINITIONS OF: go through the motions

1

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

“She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions”
Type of:
make, make believe, pretend
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
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