Something like “the Firm wants to hire you,” “London doesn’t like you,” or “the Company has noticed your achievements.”

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    9 months ago

    Oo, I got a bonus word! I spent way too much time trying to parse synecdoche from metonym.

    Apparently, synecdoche is something associated with, and metonym is a whole or a part of of. So “red hats” and “trust funds” referring to people are synecdoche and my examples were all metonyms.

    I’m geeking out a bit now.