单词	dead metaphor
释义	dead metaphor noun : a word or phrase (such as time is running out) that has lost its metaphoric force through common usage Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 This shift reminds us that dead metaphors aren’t always terminally dead. Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018 Word History First Known Use 1922, in the meaning defined above dead metaphor noun as in code word Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance code word euphemism metaphor simile analogy mixed metaphor circumlocution crank conceit device catachresis
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