| He became known as Peeping Tom thus originating a new idiom, or metonym, in English. |
| In the final analysis, arrangement and classifying comprise a metonym for any form of intellectual activity. |
| Hoping to bring democracy to the workplace, Propst had instead ushered in the cubicle, a billion-dollar industry and a metonym for drudgery. |
| Thus a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word metonym is a hyponym of the word synonym. |
| Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression. |
| The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers. |
