There is debate among literary scholars whether so-called " dead metaphors " are dead or are metaphors.
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I'm thinking of an equivalent to dead metaphor, but specific to memes .-- Mwalcoff 23 : 55, 16 October 2007 ( UTC)
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:: : Traditional English grammatical terminology is largely based on Latin dead metaphors ( Conjugation = " joining together ", Case = " fall ", Declension = " bending down " etc . ).
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In 2014, he starred in " Dead Metaphors ", a short film in which he portrays a self-destructive, reclusive novelist who hasn't published in decades who is discovered and pushed to the brink of a complete mental breakdown.
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Technically, the phrase is classified as a dead metaphor, meaning that its components cannot be used separately, unlike for example the dormant metaphor " foot of the hill ", which permits saying " that hill has a tree at its foot ".
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When the writer Jorge Luis Borges gave a talk about his pet theory that the best metaphors are cliched dead metaphors _ time is a river, life is a dream _ the sound was piped out the door of a big auditorium so the overflow crowd of young acolytes could hear.
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A person can understand the expression " falling head-over-heels in love " even if they have never encountered that variant of the phrase " falling in love . " Analytic philosopher Max Black argued that the dead metaphor should not be considered a metaphor at all, but rather classified as a separate vocabulary item.
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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'') पर्याय: frozen metaphor,
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