dead metaphor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal.
    — An objectivist might grant that digest an idea was once a metaphor, but he would claim that it is no longer metaphorical. For him it is a “dead metaphor,” one that has become conventionalized and has its own literal meaning.

词形变化

dead metaphors plural
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