ἀντίφρασις
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ, (ἀντιφράζω) Rhet. and Gramm.,
A antiphrasis, i.e. the use of words of good sense in place of those of a contrary sense, Εὐμενίδες for Ἐρινύες, πόντος εὔξεινος for ἄξεινος, Ath.3.90b; or οὐδ' ἄρα . . γήθησεν for ἐλυπήθη, Trypho Trop.2.15; κατ' ἀντίφρασιν Corn.ND4, Erot.s.v. ἀσήμοις, Herm.in Phdr.p.176A., Porph.Chr. 87. II expression by means of negation, Anon.Fig.p.212S.
German (Pape)
[Seite 263] ἡ, Benennung, die mit dem Wesen des Benannten im Widerspruch steht, Ath. III, 90 b, z. B. πόντος εὔξεινος für ἄξεινος.
