Possible Clues:

• Figurative device
• Artistic device
• Metonymy or synecdoche, e.g.
• Drink to excess, swallowing river in a manner of speaking?
• Word used as an expression
• Figure of speech — or pet (anag)
• Perhaps Rio brought up Ferguson's second figure of speech
• Tory or pleb? Not even a metaphor
• Figurative expression is right in excellent English
• Theme from middle of Vertigo, a Hitchcock film