dead metaphor

1. The Naked and the Dead displays a picture scroll of American society by means of adopting naturalistic method and taking war as metaphor.
   《裸者与死者》采用自然主义手法，以战争为依托展示了一幅美国社会的画卷。

noun

1. 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')

   Synonym:    frozen metaphor