Catalan Meaning of dead metaphor

metàfora morta

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dead metaphor (n)

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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metàfora morta

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

analogia,Paraula clau,eufemisme,Metàfora,Símil,circumloqui ,cigonyal,vanitat,dispositiu,metàfora mixta

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dead march => Marxa fúnebre, dead mail => Correu mort, dead load => Càrrega morta, dead letter => Lletra morta, dead language => Llengua morta,