dead metaphor

Letters that make dead metaphor

a, o, d, e, p, h, m, r, t are letters that make 'dead metaphor'

Words within dead metaphor

OR, metaphor, ad, ETA, DEA, eta, pH, Ea, dead, AD, tap, DE, ME, Ho, Ta are words within 'dead metaphor'


1 possible definitions for 'dead metaphor'

Dead Metaphor as "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')"

Under this definition, dead metaphor is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

frozen metaphor has the same meaning as dead metaphor

dead metaphor as a type

'dead metaphor' can be a type of metaphor.



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