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frozen metaphor

Length / number of characters: 15
Number of words: 2

  • 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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