Possible Clues:

• A figure of speech to hamper translation
• Top harem is a figure of speech
• Essentially tenor and vehicle, Ivor Richards suggested
• To hamper, badly, a figure of speech
• Tom Sharpe novel would supply more than one example of this figure of speech
• Figure of speech - other map (anag)
• Mother agonised about having Father back? Don't take that literally
• Morph map with other image
• ''Life is a bowl of cherries,'' e.g
• Figure of speech – other map (anag.)