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Frozen Metaphor
see synonyms of frozen metaphorNoun
1. dead metaphor, frozen metaphor
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')
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.