Usually means: Metaphor lost original imagery impact.
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  1. dead metaphor: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead metaphor: Vocabulary.com
  3. dead metaphor: Wiktionary
  4. dead metaphor: Dictionary.com
  5. Dead metaphor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. dead metaphor: Rhymezone
  7. dead metaphor: FreeDictionary.org
  8. dead metaphor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. dead metaphor: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See dead_metaphors as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead metaphor)

noun:  (linguistics) A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal.

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