| NOUN | communication | dead metaphor, frozen metaphor | a 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') |
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| Meaning | A 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'). | |
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| Synonym | frozen metaphor | |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | metáfora muerta | |
| Catalan | metàfora morta | |
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