Red sculpted lips and two blue glass eyes rest on a white saucer.

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Doctor Packman

If I give you one more face lift you're going to be able to blink your lips!

— The First Wives Club · 1996

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A surgeon warns a patient that another facelift would pull the skin so tight that the lips might start to blink. The exaggeration is a sharp, comic jab at overdone cosmetic surgery, with the blunt tone of someone who has already gone too far.

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