| 单词 | dead metaphor |
| 释义 | dead metaphor (once / 787955 pages) n WORD FAMILY dead metaphor: dead metaphors USAGE EXAMPLESA lecture on “Caribbean Culture” is delivered by a “bore” who “was harping in dead metaphor / the horror of colonial heritage.” The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) Obama’s slogans are examples of “dead metaphors”: They are not part of an overall conceptual scheme. Slate(Jan 20, 2013) This show’s centerpiece, “Burned Bridge,” turns a dead metaphor and a pile of reclaimed lumber into a haunted, commanding sculpture. New York Times(Feb 09, 2012) n 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') Syn|Hyper frozen metaphor metaphor 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 |
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