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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.
Noun. 1. metaphor-a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. figure of speech, trope, image, figure-language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.