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Definition: dead metaphor
dead metaphor
n : 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') [syn:
frozen metaphor
]
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