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“He rolled his toilet things into his housewife”
From C.S. Forester's Hornblower and the Hotspur:
[The naval captain] rolled his toilet things into his housewife and tied the tapes.
ODO does provide a second definition for housewife which ...
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What is the grammatical term for the following idiom?
When there is a group or list of specific items, its components are curiously pluralized when reciting them in one sentence.
For instance,when a person discusses the qualities of blue-chip stocks, he ...
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Is there a term for referring to an organization by its city rather than by its name?
This happens specifically often in the technology press:
There's no point trying to ascribe motives to what Redmond [instead of "Microsoft"] does.
We'll see shortly if Cupertino [instead of ...
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What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?
What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?
