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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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');
[syn: dead metaphor, frozen metaphor]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

frozen metaphor
    n 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') [syn:
         dead metaphor, frozen metaphor]