work 'plastic surgery'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Me too. Ten years? More?

JL

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> I don't move at all in "plastic surgery" circles, but I have been familiar
> with this usage for years.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> 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."
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> --Charlie
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