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’)
   "The phrase 'time is money' is a dead metaphor";
   - frozen metaphor

Derived forms: dead metaphors

Type of: metaphor

Encyclopedia: Dead metaphor