dead metaphor
metaphorics
supermetaphor
unmetaphoric
proverbial
metaphorize
metaphorology
metaphoricity
metaphoricalness
metaphor
metaphorical
remetaphorize
metaphorically
hyperliteralism
metaphoric
source domain
potato
metaphorization
figurative
catachresis
tralatitious
figure
transumptive
demetaphorize
extended metaphor
multimetaphorical
hypermetaphorical
nonmetaphoricity
target
tralatitiously
metaphorician
trope
tralatition
antimetaphorical
as it were
figurist
tropically
literally
mixed metaphor
nonmetaphorical
unmetaphorical
figurativeness
shotgun marriage
by extension
unmetaphorically
metaphorist
carapace
transferred sense
disanalogy
snowclone
hyperphoretic
synesthetic metaphor
out of context
pathetic fallacy
symbolical
figurational
hand in the cookie jar
languagescape
analog
figuratively
iconic
nonmetaphoric
smokescreen
unfigurative
frozen metaphor
tropology
kenning
suck up
image
quasi
imbibe
take in
soak up
figure of speech
suck
spoken word
as well as
take up
analogically
sop up
absorb
draw
lens
conceit
counteranalogy
quicksand
metalepsis
controlling image
latrating

English words for 'A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal. Not to be confused with stale metaphor (a type of cliché), although it often is.'

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