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