| The object doesn't necessarily have to be an activity, though an activity is usually implied metonymically. |
| On one side of the fence, to put it metonymically, we had Antony Beevor's Stalingrad. |
| Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family. |
| The conflict is emblematized, both physically and metonymically, by the gun on one hand and women on the other. |
| In ordinary language, it's subtly offensive when someone speaks about another person metonymically, calling a woman a blonde, or a man a suit. |
| We are also allowed to talk about gods metonymically or allegorically, calling wine Bacchus or the earth the mother of the gods, provided we remember that this is simply imagery and implies nothing true about the universe. |
