Dead Metaphor
nounid
45965·updated May 18, 2026verified
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')
MWE
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- frozen metaphor
- plural
- Dead Metaphors
- possessive
- Dead Metaphor's
- pluralpossessive
- Dead Metaphors'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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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