Synset:frozen metaphor
Hypernyms:metaphor
Inherited Hypernyms:dead metaphormetaphortroperhetorical devicedeviceexpressive stylecommunicationabstractionentity
| 单词 | dead metaphor |
| 释义 | Dead Metaphor nnoun.communicationa 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') Synset:frozen metaphor Hypernyms:metaphor Inherited Hypernyms:dead metaphormetaphortroperhetorical devicedeviceexpressive stylecommunicationabstractionentity |
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