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Definition of "
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')
(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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