just "going through the emotions"

[Victor Steinbok]

Barkley is a rather admirable wordsmith, and a lot of these odd
expressions are actual comic coinages rather than random errors or blends.

VS-)

On 5/14/2012 8:14 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> …is what, according to Charles Barkley, the Celtics have been doing in their playoff game tonight against the 76ers, who they obviously don't respect (again, according to Barkley, although I tend to agree).  I assume it's a blend of "going through the motions" + "playing without emotion".
>
> LH

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