silver surgery

silver surgery
 n.— «BUPA, the private health insurer, reports a 40 per cent increase in the past year, and 37 per cent the year before that, in demand for cosmetic operations among the over-60s. It has even coined a name for the phenomenon: “silver surgery.” One in twelve of all cosmetic procedures now performed in BUPA hospitals is on those who have already seen their 60th birthday.» —“Not-so-wrinklies line up for facelifts” by Alan Hamilton Times (London, England) May 29, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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