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英英字典: dead_metaphor

dead metaphor   (TTS Sound)



Overview of noun dead_metaphor

The noun dead metaphor has 1 sense


  • dead metaphor, frozen metaphor -- (a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new 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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