英语词汇“mixed metaphor”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

WORD FAMILY

mixed metaphor: mixed metaphors

USAGE EXAMPLES

And its history has become a mixed metaphor of sorts: a story of the Russian ballet in a profoundly Soviet institution.

New York Times(Nov 13, 2016)

Sometimes you build a universe out of a single detail, giving that detail friends and company: images and what-ifs and mixed metaphors.

Slate(Oct 05, 2016)

He acknowledges that he just used a mixed metaphor, but what the heck.

Washington Post(Jan 09, 2016)

n a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect

Hyper

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

单词	mixed metaphor
释义	mixed metaphor (once / 78796 pages) n WORD FAMILY mixed metaphor: mixed metaphors USAGE EXAMPLES And its history has become a mixed metaphor of sorts: a story of the Russian ballet in a profoundly Soviet institution. New York Times(Nov 13, 2016) Sometimes you build a universe out of a single detail, giving that detail friends and company: images and what-ifs and mixed metaphors. Slate(Oct 05, 2016) He acknowledges that he just used a mixed metaphor, but what the heck. Washington Post(Jan 09, 2016) n a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect Hyper 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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