What is a seeing-for-making-sure metonymy?

What is a seeing-for-making-sure metonymy?

Definition
	A conventional metonymy in which reference to seeing a thing done is used to stand for making sure that it is done.

Generic
	A seeing-for-making-sure metonymy is a kind of
	Conventional metonymies in English

Source
	Lakoff 1987:437

Context for this page:

Concept module: seeing-for-making-sure metonymy
In modular book: Metonymies in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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