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dead metaphor
noun
: a word or phrase (such as time is running out) that has lost its metaphoric force through common usage
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor. 
Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 This shift reminds us that dead metaphors aren’t always terminally dead. Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 This shift reminds us that dead metaphors aren’t always terminally dead. Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1922, in the meaning defined above
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