Possible Clues:

• Get the wine back. 'E uses the word figuratively
• Irony, say
• Rhetorical device
• Metaphorical use of a word or expression
• Metaphor, literarily
• Familiar theme
• The irony is, spectator is missing cast
• Recurrent theme, motif
• Figure of speech used by reporter in write-up
• Cliché