just "going through the emotions"

[Laurence Horn]

On May 14, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

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

That could certainly apply here; a lot of the first few pages of "going through the emotions" on google were certainly puns or intentional coinages rather than eggcorns, although I did notice that someone sent "going through the emotions" into eggcorn database forum with the interpretation that it was indeed an eggcorn, but who really knows.

LH

> 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".
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>> LH
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