nose job

nose job

A cosmetic surgical procedure to alter the shape and/or size of one's nose. He wants to get a nose job with the money he won from the lottery, but I'm trying to convince him to do something more practical with it.
See also: job, nose
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nose job

n. a plastic surgery operation to change the appearance of one’s nose. I don’t want a nose job. What I got is good enough.
See also: job, nose
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • take (something) on the nose
  • take it on the nose
  • poke one's nose into, to
  • stuff up
  • turn (one's) nose up at (someone or something)
  • turn nose up at
  • turn your nose up at something
  • nose candy
  • the nose knows
  • blow (one's) nose
References in periodicals archive
"The filler is a nice thick filler, which we need to use for nose jobs because we are trying to recreate bone and cartilage, so we want something that is nice and thick and is going to look and act like cartilage.
This year Chris again returned to Poland and had a nose job and hair transplant, upper eyelid lift and had his teeth redone.
"I've always contemplated a nose job but I wouldn't do it now," she says.
Ramtin Kassir, M.D., F.A.C.S., a triple board certified plastic surgeon in New York, presents the infographic (http://www.drkassir.com/blog/americans-and-rhinoplasty-infographic-dr-kassir/) as a way to provide more factual information about nose jobs in an easy and fun format.
She requested anonymity, saying she didn't want it known that she was getting a nose job.
Like her sister Cameron before her, Allie is to get a nose job to be more beautiful, like their ex-model/actress mother.
The Oscar winner follows fellow Hollywood star Mel Gibson, who entered a rehab facility last month following his drink-driving arrest in Malibu, California.<p>Taylor's nose job exposed in new biography<p>* Movie legend Elizabeth Taylor's plastic surgery secrets are to be exposed in a new book written by her pal Michael Jackson's celebrated biographer.
It took perhaps 40 or 50 years go give the ball a "nose job"--take the chubbiness out and give it the shape of a projectile.
'Foot surgery is different from having a nose job because you don't have to walk on your face.'
When Lisa was evicted from the Channel 4 show in 2003 there were banners reading 'Dump the Pig' and 'Get a Nose Job'.
Package deals range from pounds 3,177 for a nose job and pounds 3,124 for breast enlargement.
"I wanted to be a model, but an agent told me I needed a nose job."
If you've been wondering what Linda Tripp has been doing since her $26,000 facelift, nose job, chin implant, and neck fat removal, Steve Vogel has the--dare we use the word--skinny.
I do not understand why getting a nose job is so bad.
A mum who faked depression to get a nose job on the NHS wants her 14-year-old daughter to have plastic surgery too because 'ugly people get nowhere'.