get work done

verb — 2 senses

get work done

verb
1

To receive plastic surgery.

  • The push to get work done younger is just a small part of the reason the cosmetic surgery industry is booming.2006, Alex Kuczynski, Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery, page 80:
  • We've got nothing to be ashamed of but we don't want to advertise that we get work done either.2010, Jami Attenberg, chapter 20, in The Melting Season:
1 more example
  • It's very hard to get work done in your hometown without it being noticed afterward.2011, Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Single Girl's Survival Guide:
2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, work, done.

  • I can't get any work done with that noise outside!

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