To Snap Back Sagging skin

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Sagging skin








I raised my eyebrow at the ad. The loosen fat has been hard to look away from, so it is "eye-catching" enough for me to write a few passages about. 

Let me point to the phrase "snap back" and the word "sagging" in the ad. 

 

When one snaps their fingers, they make a quick motion and a sudden sharp noise. (But I never learn to.) To apply the meaning to the phrase "snap back," you get the idea of something moving "quickly" and "suddenly." Picture this: a magician is doing a dove magic and snaps his/her fingers. Voila! Pigeons fly out from a top hat. 

For an ad promoting a magic, efficient way to reduce the sagging skin, "snap back" is definitely the top of the choices in a phrase bank.  

Now let's take a look at the word "sag(-sagged-sagging)" and its etymology.


"Sag" is a derivative of sink and you can picture this, something goes down. Let's look at the sinking S in the picture down below ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ 

All right, apply this "down" feeling to the word "sagging," something that's going down, down, down...
Imagine the loose fat going down from the elbow (unscramble "elbow" you have "below") to the armpit. The skin has gone down and will be moving downward thanks to gravity. It is "sagging" skin.



Before I finish the post for today, it is not a bad idea to refresh the early-year memory: a sag bag! You sit on one and you go down! 


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