dead metaphor (n)
frozen metaphor (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def 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')
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Hypernym metaphor
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Hyponym metaphor

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