- metaphoric\ periphrasis
- перифраз фигуральный (метафорический, метонимический)a periphrasis that is made of phrase-metonymies or phrase-metaphors (V.A.K.)- is to convey a purely individual perception of the described object
The hospital was crowded with the surgically interesting products of the fighting in Africa. [=wounded] (I.Shaw)
His huge leather chairs were kind to the femurs. (R.P.Warren)
I took my obedient feet away from him. (W.S.Gilbert)
English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) . 2014.