have sole ownership / responsibility etc phrase Sole at flatfish self-organized learning environment: a method of education in which groups of children learn independently using computers connected to the Internet Synonyms and related words
Definition. A dead metaphor is traditionally defined as a figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use. Also known as a frozen metaphor or a historical metaphor. Contrast with creative metaphor.
At its best, the metaphor is a simple evocative description of how the program works, such as âthis program works like a hive of bees, going out for pollen and bringing it back to the hiveâ as a description for an agent-based information retrieval system. Sometimes a sufficiently poetic metaphor does not arise.