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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Go through the motions
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A police officer is wondering why the CIA chief had been killed. He thinks that maybe the dead CIA chief knew very well who killed him and maybe others at the Agency did too. Then he says: If so, they were letting him go through the motions on his own.
What does it mean? They let him pretend or something?
A police officer is wondering why the CIA chief had been killed. He thinks that maybe the dead CIA chief knew very well who killed him and maybe others at the Agency did too. Then he says: If so, they were letting him go through the motions on his own.
What does it mean? They let him pretend or something?
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Yes, something like that: usually, it means doing something perfunctorily or without effect. I can't tell you more without knowing what he was doing.
- Yes, something like that: usually, it means doing something perfunctorily or without effect.
- I can't tell you more without knowing what he was doing.
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Yes, something like that: usually, it means doing something perfunctorily or without effect. I can't tell you more without knowing what he was doing.
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Mister Micawber I can't tell you more without knowing what he was doing.
I don't know either, but I suppose that he without effect was trying to do something to avoid his own death. He didn't manage to do it and was killed.
I understand this phrase that they (CIA agents) let him ineffectively deal with something. Probably with the guy who
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