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

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Eddie

Surgery, sweetie. Lipo, on the hands and stomach, bum lift, tit lift, lose a rib and see what happens with my lips!

— Absolutely Fabulous • 1992

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker rattles off a breezy shopping list of cosmetic procedures, from fat removal to lifts and even a rib. Ending with curiosity about what might happen to their lips, they treat drastic body alteration as casual, vain and gleefully extravagant.

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