Talk:1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

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Is this actually an idiom? It seems to be a straightforward case of metonymy. Certainly "white house" is not an idiom, even when being used to describe the executive branch or a decision made by the president. What is idiomatic about this address?2602:306:3461:ECC0:8893:76BB:3EAF:4BEB 18:11, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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