Category:English metonyms

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  2. kitchen sink
  3. seropositivity
  4. marginal cost
  5. hammermill
  6. trash
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  8. Houston
  9. chainfall
  10. Silicon Valley
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  3. Madison Avenue
  4. Tin Pan Alley
  5. Downing Street
  6. Fleet Street
  7. puss
  8. Old Bailey
  9. Whitehall
  10. cunny

English terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

For more information, see Appendix:English metonyms.


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