frozen metaphor

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• 27. februar 2016 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  frozen metaphor — navneord — engelsk

  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')