Simplified Chinese Meaning of dead metaphor

隐喻

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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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隐喻

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

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dead march => 送葬进行曲, dead mail => 死信, dead load => 静载, dead letter => 死信, dead language => 死语言,