Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

frozen metaphor

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: frozen metaphor
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

1

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

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’)

Synonyms

dead metaphor

Questions

What does frozen metaphor mean?: 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’)

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