Metonymy has now been widely recognized and portrayed as a fundamental scheme of thought, which gets manifested at many levels of human experience, ranging from culture to culture, through everyday thinking and language. The book, Metonymy: hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication, written by Jeannette Littlemore, mainly presents a full discussion of the different types of metonymy that have been identified in the literature, the different functions that metonymy performs, the contribution that it makes to successful communication in language and other forms of expression, the role that it plays in intercultural communication, and the types of misinterpretations that can occur in these contexts.