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dead metaphor
dead metaphorn. A figure of speech whose metaphorical meaning has become so familiar over time that its literal meaning is forgotten or goes unnoticed, as in arrive at a conclusion or cast a glance.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | dead metaphor - a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')frozen metaphormetaphor - a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
dead metaphor
Related to dead metaphor: mixed metaphorSynonyms for dead metaphornoun a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (eSynonymsRelated Words |