Idiom
fat lip
Meaning
A swelling on the lip, especially one resulting from a punch or other blow.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He got a fat lip after falling off his bike.”
“The boxer left the ring with a fat lip after taking a hard punch.”
“Despite the intense scuffle in the alleyway, he walked away with nothing more than a fat lip and a bruised ego.”
Examples
simple
“He got a fat lip after falling off his bike.”
contextual
“The boxer left the ring with a fat lip after taking a hard punch.”
complex
“Despite the intense scuffle in the alleyway, he walked away with nothing more than a fat lip and a bruised ego.”
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