OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 53308

go through the motions

Meanings (ES + gloss)
andar por inercia • continuar maquinalmente • seguir los ademanes
To do something in a mechanical, unreflective manner, especially as a matter of routine and without commitment or enthusiasm; to perform a task perfunctorily.
Aleck was a Christian from the cradle, and duty and the force of habit required her to go through the motions.
They went through the motions of living, but they didn't live.
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