wrong sentence

Neither one is enormously wrong, although I would say "Lucy had her hair cut at an expensive beauty parlor downtown." It is the stylist, not the establishment itself, who actually cuts the hair, so your second sentence might more properly read, "Lucy had someone at an expensive beauty parlor downtown cut her hair," but I've heard this particular "synecdoche" often eno

I should have realized that I needed to use the prepo AT instead of BY.
Thanks.

Delmobile," but I've heard this particular "synecdoche" often enough.

Are you referring to the metonymy in the original question?

A synechoche is a subset of metonymy, but the original poster was not using is at such - the orignal poster simply made an error with the preposition.

Thanks, GG. If the poster had meant to use 'by' it would be a metonymy/synechoche right? I'm still tryin gto understand the meanings of the terms.

I can see they are difficult to learn. Most people who use them (and we do, every day, without realizing it) have no idea that there even are grammatical terms for what they just said.

Common ones are referring to a place/office to represent the person. "The White House said..." "The reaction from Downing Street was swift and severe."

But in reading about this just now, I found e

Grammar GeekWell, obviously, the rest of the person showed up too. How gross would it be if just the faces showed up!

LOL...That's a good one.