HyperDic: dead_metaphor

English > 1 sense of the expression dead metaphor:
NOUNcommunicationdead metaphor, frozen metaphora metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning / 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')
English > dead metaphor: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning / 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').
Synonymfrozen metaphor
BroadermetaphorA 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
Spanishmetáfora muerta
Catalanmetàfora morta

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