Metalepsis

Metalepsis (from Ancient Greek: μετάληψις) is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context. Quintilian described metalepsis as an "intermediate step" to the original phrase, and its meaning depends upon its connection to the idiom from which it derives. Harold Bloom called metalepsis a "metonymy of a metonymy" because it uses part of an established trope to refer to the whole.

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