dead metaphor

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dead metaphor的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

英英释义

Noun:

1. 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')