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    DEAD METAPHOR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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')play

    Synonyms:

    dead metaphor; frozen metaphor

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("dead metaphor" is a kind of...):

    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)

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