I think this is a good time to remind my few readers that one of my favored rhetorical devices is synecdoche, in which a part stands in for the whole. I used it because it allows me to express something tersely yet graphically which would otherwise become intolerably wrong. That said in the full recognition that my writing is barely tolerable as it stands.
Our discourse is greatly impoverished when we must spell out every detail for the unimaginative but there you have it.
“That said in the full recognition that my writing is barely tolerable as it stands.”
Why do you says this?