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synecdoche, where the part stands for the whole,
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
synecdoche
Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
there are idiosyncratic metaphorical expressions that stand alone and are not used systematically in our language or thought. These are well-known expressions like the foot of the mountain, a head of cabbage, the leg of a table, etc.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
