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Originally Posted by roachboy
there is no question that the white house understands (why anthropomorphize the building?)
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Poetic device known as "synectoche". Using the part to stand for the whole. In this case, the container for the thing contained. The example my favorite English Teacher gave of synectoche is "I hit her with the milk". It's not the milk so much as the bottle that he hit her with--thing contained for the container, in that case.
/grammar geek threadjack