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Meaning of word dead metaphor from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

dead metaphor noun

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 : frozen metaphor

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