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Dead metaphor — A dead metaphor is a metaphor which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive popular usage. Because dead metaphors have a conventional meaning that differs from the original, they can be understood without knowing … Wikipedia
dead metaphor — noun 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 ) • Syn: ↑frozen metaphor … Useful english dictionary
dead metaphor — noun Date: 1922 a word or phrase (as time is running out) that has lost its metaphoric force through common usage … New Collegiate Dictionary
Metaphor — This article is about the figure of speech. For other uses, see Metaphor (disambiguation). A political cartoon from an 1894 Puck magazine by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart, shows a farm woman labeled Democratic Party sheltering from a tornado of… … Wikipedia
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Dead Artist Syndrome — Brian Healy Background information Also known as D.A.S. Origin Orange County … Wikipedia
metaphor — metaphorical /met euh fawr i keuhl, for /, metaphoric, adj. metaphorically, adv. metaphoricalness, n. /met euh fawr , feuhr/, n. 1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in… … Universalium
Dead Man — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Dead Man Produktionsland USA, Japan, Deutschland … Deutsch Wikipedia
Dead on arrival — For other uses, see Dead on arrival (disambiguation). Dead on arrival or D.O.A. (also dead in the field) is a term used to indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance, often… … Wikipedia
metaphor — The most important figure of speech, in which one subject matter (sometimes called the tenor) is referred to by a term or sentence (the vehicle) that does not literally describe it: the ship of state, the light of faith, etc. Philosophical… … Philosophy dictionary
