face lift

[face lift] {n. phr.}

1. A surgical procedure designed to make one's face look younger.

* /Aunt Jane, who is in her seventies, had an expensive face lift and now she looks as if she were 40./

2. A renovation, a refurbishing.

* /Our house needs a major face lift to make it fit in with the rest of the neighborhood./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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