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Time off: go to get face bones reset (5,2,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leave of absence

'time off' is the definition.
(leave of absence is a kind of time off)

'go to get face bones reset' is the wordplay.
'go' becomes 'leave' (leaving is a kind of going**).
'to get' is an insertion indicator.
'reset' indicates an anagram.
'face'+'bones'='facebones'
'facebones' with letters rearranged gives 'eofabsenc'.
'leave' placed around 'eofabsenc' is 'LEAVE OF ABSENCE'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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