DEAD METAPHOR as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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”)
   Synonym(s)
   • frozen metaphor (what does frozen metaphor mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) dead metaphor is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • metaphor (what does metaphor mean?)