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单词 dead metaphors
释义

dead metaphor

noun

: a word or phrase (such as time is running out) that has lost its metaphoric force through common usage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 This shift reminds us that dead metaphors aren’t always terminally dead. Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

dead metaphors

noun

plural of dead metaphor
as in code words

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • code words
  • circumlocutions
  • euphemisms
  • metaphors
  • analogies
  • similes
  • devices
  • mixed metaphors
  • cranks
  • conceits
  • catachreses
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