Frozen Metaphor
nounid
58414·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')
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- dead metaphor
- plural
- Frozen Metaphors
- possessive
- Frozen Metaphor's
- pluralpossessive
- Frozen 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')
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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')DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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