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FROZEN 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')
Synonyms:
dead metaphor; frozen metaphor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("frozen 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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