work 'plastic surgery'

[Charles C Doyle]

Has this newish usage been discussed here?  (I can't find any such discussion in the ADS-L archive, and I don't see it in UrbanDictionary either.)   Evidently, we are expected to understand "She (or He) has had some (or a little) work done" to be a sort of euphemism for "Her face has undergone surgical improvement."

--Charlie

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