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Defenition of the word frozen metaphor

    • Defenition of the word frozen metaphor

      • 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')
      • 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'')

    Synonyms for the word frozen metaphor

      • dead metaphor

    Hypernyms for the word frozen metaphor

      • metaphor

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