| dead metaphor | อุปลักษณ์ไร้พลัง [วรรณกรรม ๖ มี.ค. ๒๕๔๕] |
| dead metaphor | (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'), Syn. frozen metaphor |