I wasn't just trying to keep up appearances through a hard time.
Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
They're also quite poor, and it's been very difficult for them to keep up appearances.
We have to keep up appearances at this critical moment.
Have to keep up appearances, after all, though I'd be much more useful back here.
Must keep up appearances, you know, now you're one of the family.
But it was always necessary for us to keep up appearances.
I put keep on keeping up appearances or something, yeah.
There was no use trying even to keep up appearances.
But we'd better talk to keep up appearances, people are looking at us.
Just went through the motions, sure in the knowledge the men watching didn't want too much from them.
And they had to go through the motions of doing something.
Everyone seems to be going through the motions of life while waiting for the end.
You're just going through the motions of living your life.
No point in just going through the motions and saying words he does not mean.
The other just seems to go through the motions but to be of little real help.
"Then why did he go through the motions of the meeting just now?"
She went through the motions of living with nothing behind them.
You just went through the motions and came up with an answer.
He was a man going through the motions of living.
Idiome