First and foremost I would like to thank Andrew Winnard at Cambridge University Press for his constant support and encouragement throughout the writing of this book and for having believed in the project from the outset. I would also like to thank Joanna Breeze, also at Cambridge University Press, for leading the production process. I am also indebted to a number of people who have provided valuable feedback and who have had very interesting things to say about the contents of this book. These include: Satomi Arizono, Antonio Barcelona, John Barnden, Tony Berber Sardinha, Ewa Biernacka, Lynne Cameron, Alan Cienki, Alice Deignan, Pilar Durán Escribano, Charles Forceville, Ray Gibbs, Nicholas Groom, Robert Holland, Joseph Holloway, Susan Hunston, Almut Koester, Tina Krennmayr, Graham Low, Fiona MacArthur, Khalid Mahmood, Daniel Malt, Joe Malt, Oscar Malt, Alice May, Rosamund Moon, Lee Oakley, Daphne Papadoudi, Paula Pérez-Sobrino, Peter Richardson, Ana Roldan Riejos, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Wendy Scase, Elena Semino, Gerard Steen, Rachel Sutton-Spence, Caroline Tagg, John Taylor, Paul Thompson and Tong Xiaoqiong. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers, especially the writer of the clearance review who provided particularly valuable feedback which shaped the final version of the book. My final thanks go to Sara Peacock, who was much, much more than an editor, and to Helen Bitton, who has created a first-class index, and who ‘has now started to spot Metonymy everywhere!’