| 单词 | mixed metaphor |
| 释义 | mixed metaphor (once / 78796 pages) n WORD FAMILY mixed metaphor: mixed metaphors USAGE EXAMPLESAnd 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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