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单词 mixed metaphor
释义
mixed metaphor
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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
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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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