The word I was looking for earlier, one example of which being a container for the thing contained, is 'metonymy' - examples being 'lend me your ears' when referring to the hearing the ears represent, or 'England beat Australia' when referring to the cricket teams from the two countries.
A synecdoche is similar, but means to refer to something by some small part of it - 'move your ass', for example.
The reversal of a metonymy is nearly always a synecdoche, however, which is the thing that got me onto the whole subject, as it was in the book I'm reading - the author finally came up with a reversal - a thing contained for the container - with a wife screaming at her husband "get away from me or I'll hit you with the milk."
A synecdoche is similar, but means to refer to something by some small part of it - 'move your ass', for example.
The reversal of a metonymy is nearly always a synecdoche, however, which is the thing that got me onto the whole subject, as it was in the book I'm reading - the author finally came up with a reversal - a thing contained for the container - with a wife screaming at her husband "get away from me or I'll hit you with the milk."
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I'm afraid I don't know anything about programming, though, so if you post a blog about that I'll never get my head round it!