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"Keep your eyes to yourself."

 

She tells me to keep my eyes to myself. Yet my eyes have not literally left their sockets, rolled across the desk, and slithered into her cleavage. Her command has a tropical nature: things (eyes) represent their purpose (looking). That's a metonymy.

 

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