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Figure of speech which has lost its original imagery
A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning by extensive, repetitive, and popular usage, or because it refers
Dead_metaphor
Figure of speech of implicit comparison
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for literary effect, refers to one thing by mentioning another. Thus, it invites the audience to make a comparison
Metaphor
In cognitive linguistics, relating conceptual domains
In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, is the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. An
Conceptual_metaphor
Metaphor for a psychological burden
An albatross is a metaphor for a psychological or social burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. It is an allusion
Albatross_(metaphor)
English language idiom
paralysis Comprehension of idioms Dead metaphor English-language idioms Red pill and blue pill Tunnel vision (metaphor) Wiki rabbit hole Schulz, Kathryn
Down_the_rabbit_hole
Canadian-American actor, musician, and voice actor (born 1987)
Company John Logan's Red Ken Neptune Theatre 2014 George F. Walker's Dead Metaphor Dean Canadian Repertory Theatre / Panasonic Theatre 2015 Creditors Adolf
Noah_Reid
Metaphor originating from Greek mythology
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose
Cassandra_(metaphor)
English idiom used in theatre to wish a performer good luck
"good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin (a dead metaphor), "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they
Break_a_leg
Design element borrowed from original medium
read less precisely than a digital one. Electronics portal Anachronism Dead metaphor Facadism Flat design Frutiger Aero Human interface guidelines Intuition
Skeuomorph
Part of speech that names an object or set of objects
reference to any "rock" or any "roll"; lock, stock, and barrel is a dead metaphor that refers only to a figurative sense of a lock or stock or barrel
Noun
Feminine qualities in boys or men
primary meaning of cinaedus never died out; the term never became a dead metaphor." The late Greek Erôtes ("Loves", "Forms of Desire", "Affairs of the
Effeminacy
Class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication
In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions invoked when linguists discuss communication itself (metalanguage).
Conduit_metaphor
2004 film by Zack Snyder
and Variety stated that whereas Romero used the shopping mall to stage a metaphor about consumer society, Snyder treated it merely as a convenient sanctuary
Dawn_of_the_Dead_(2004_film)
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible
List of English-language metaphors
List_of_English-language_metaphors
Quote by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ; also known as the death of God) is a metaphor used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, appearing
God_is_dead
2007 American film
Southerners, who presumably are expected to embrace one whopping brain-dead metaphor." Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News wrote: "This is a movie where
Delta_Farce
Signifier without a definite referent
contested concept Glittering generality The Symbolic Dangling pointer Dead metaphor "Oxford Reference Overview: floating signifier". Oxford University Press
Floating_signifier
Story in the Quran
The Dead Sea Apes is a Quran story of dwellers by the Dead Sea who were transformed into apes for breaking the Sabbath. It is also a metaphor used, for
Dead_Sea_Apes
"Intersex Symbols". Davis, Whitney (2005). "Decadence and the Organic Metaphor". Representations. 89 (1): 131–149. doi:10.1525/rep.2005.89.1.131. ISSN 0734-6018
List_of_plants_with_symbolism
Adjective derived from the author George Orwell
Retrieved 27 February 2018. Dolan, Naoise. "How George Orwell became a dead metaphor". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 November 2025. VanDenburgh, Barbara.
Orwellian
Subgenre of apocalyptic fiction
video games, and literature. The zombie apocalypse has been used as a metaphor for various contemporary fears, such as global contagion, the breakdown
Zombie_apocalypse
Belief or behavior that is considered irrational or supernatural
"good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin (a dead metaphor), "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they
Superstition
Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces
S2CID 222094116. Warren, E. Janet (2012). "'Spiritual Warfare': A Dead Metaphor?". Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 21 (2): 278–297. doi:10.1163/17455251-02102007
Spiritual_warfare
Figure of speech
applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good"). Lederer (1990), in the spirit
Oxymoron
Christian religious terminology and jargon
1085239. ISSN 2056-6093. Warren, E. Janet (2012). "'Spiritual Warfare': A Dead Metaphor?". Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 21 (2): 278–297. doi:10.1163/17455251-02102007
Christianese
several athletic metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews. Such metaphors also appear in
New Testament athletic metaphors
New_Testament_athletic_metaphors
Literary device in Tolkien's fiction
that Tolkien revives numerous familiar and seemingly linguistically dead metaphors for evil in the book, ambiguously treating them both as familiar phrases
Tolkien's_ambiguity
Figure of speech marked by explicit comparison
contrasted) with metaphors. Similes compare two things explicitly, in English often using the words "like" or "as", whereas metaphors often create an implicit
Simile
Evolution of a word's meaning
ngram dataset and the Corpus of Historical American English. Calque Dead metaphor Euphemism treadmill False friend Formal thought disorder Genericized
Semantic_change
2007 American horror film by George A. Romero
about the zombie genre and its metaphors for our undead society?" George Romero won a 2008 Critics Award for Diary of the Dead at the Festival international
Diary_of_the_Dead
2005 post-apocalyptic horror film by George A. Romero
six Living Dead movies, it is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival
Land_of_the_Dead
Glorified visual presentation of food
US". Davis, Simon. The Telegraph. 10 May 2000. Retrieved 29 August 2019.[dead link] Alt URL Archived 2021-07-25 at the Wayback Machine "The Food Porn Phenomenon"
Food_porn
Connotation - Context - Contrast - Consonance -Cordel literature - Couplet Dead metaphor - Detail - Denouement - Description - Dialect - Dialogue - Diary - Didactic
Index_of_literature_articles
Period when great tasks were accomplished
the hunter-gatherer tribal societies of the Mesolithic, but only as a metaphor. A society's Golden Age marks that period in its history having a heightened
Golden_age_(metaphor)
Apprehension or doubt preventing planned action
Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.[dead link] "Cold feet". Dictionary.com. Archived from the original on 12 November
Cold_feet
Person who died before professionals saw them
involved, the medical metaphor is perhaps appropriate, as complex diagnostics might be required to determine if the product "is really dead". This term is also
Dead_on_arrival
2000 studio album by Phi Life Cypher
Retrieved 23 May 2012.[dead link] The Wire. C. Parker. 2000. p. 82. Retrieved 23 May 2012. "Phi-Life Cypher Millennium Metaphors". RapReviews. Tim Perry
Millennium_Metaphors
Canadian actress (born 1967)
Thousand Islands Playhouse), All That Fall (2010, Theatre Columbus), Dead Metaphor (2014, Canadian Rep Theatre), Age of Arousal (2015, Factory Theatre)
Julie_Stewart
2013 tax increase and spending decrease
Leader Eric Cantor Comes Out in Opposition to Senate Bill to Avert 'cliff'"[dead link]. Associated Press (via The Washington Post). "Roll No. 659" Archived
United_States_fiscal_cliff
Period in the history of the visual arts in Finland, 1880–1910
Retrieved 15 July 2020. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Art of Finland. The Golden Age of Finnish Art, Elina Ojala, University of Tampere.[dead link]
Golden_Age_of_Finnish_Art
Optimization algorithm
accurate algorithm for numerical simulation of Lévy stable stochastic processes[dead link], Physical Review E, Vol.49, 4677-4683 (1994). M. Leccardi, Comparison
Cuckoo_search
Software for executing a denial-of-service attack
ngx_http_limit_conn_module is the author's recommended solution.) R.U.D.Y., short for "R U Dead Yet?", is an acronym used to describe a Denial of Service (DoS) tool used
Slowloris_(cyber_attack)
Years War, a sourcebook. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137069771.[permanent dead link] Kanski, Jack J. (2019). History of the German speaking nations. Troubador
Golden_Age_of_Flanders
Odysseus's faithful dog in the Odyssey
literary value. Argos has been described as a symbol of faithfulness and a metaphor for the decline of Odysseus and his household (oikos) within the larger
Argos_(dog)
metaphoricism in music is not always clear. (cf. a position that a dead metaphor is literal and no longer metaphoric). The resemblance theory of musical
Literalism_(music)
Undead being from Haitian folklore and horror fiction
equality, and the human–zombie romantic relationship is interpreted as a metaphor for sexual liberation and taboo breaking (given that zombies are subject
Zombie
Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
God of Carnage, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) 2014: Arrabal, Dead Metaphor, The Boy With Tape On His Face, Buyer & Cellar 2015: Boom, Vanya and
CAA_Theatre
Introduction of a distracting topic
The dead cat strategy, also known as deadcatting, is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away
Dead_cat_strategy
Market research tool
The Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique (ZMET) is a market research tool. ZMET is a technique that elicits both conscious and especially unconscious
Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique
Zaltman_metaphor_elicitation_technique
American filmmaker (1940–2017)
zombie terror who created the ultimate horror-movie metaphor" and remarked that "the real metaphor isn't only about Vietnam, or capitalism, or even disease
George_A._Romero
Canadian theatrical production company
Clybourne Park Mary Walsh's Dancing with Rage —N/a 2013-2014 God of Carnage Dead Metaphor The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) —N/a —N/a 2014-2015 Buyer & Cellar
Mirvish_Productions
Figures of speech for people's experiences with cancer
War metaphors are often used to describe a person's experience with cancer. Those who have died are said to have lost their "battle with cancer", while
War_metaphors_in_cancer
Characters in the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2
Scholars Hilary Jane Locke and Thomas Mackay identified Cornwall as a metaphor for American capitalism, noting a resemblance with "robber barons" like
List of Red Dead Redemption 2 characters
List_of_Red_Dead_Redemption_2_characters
Metaphor about slow change
perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of
Boiling_frog
Series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling
literary merits, saying, "Rowling's mind is so governed by clichés and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing." A. S. Byatt authored an op-ed
Harry_Potter
the Golden Age of Horror Movies". GQ. Retrieved 2024-10-10. "The Golden Age of Gore". www.compulsivecontents.com. Retrieved 2024-10-10.[dead link] v t e
Golden_age_of_horror_films
British spy novels
asks. 'No writing for me is much more about paragraphs and sentences, metaphors. I don't really apply a visual element, more a vague sense of my eye on
Slough_House_(novel_series)
Small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock
In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining asset. Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if
Dead_cat_bounce
Deteriorating or largely vacant shopping mall
A dead mall, also known as a ghost mall or zombie mall, is a shopping mall that has low consumer traffic or is deteriorating in some manner. Many malls
Dead_mall
Type of sandwich wrap
in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It has been used as a metaphor to represent things like mundanity, weakness and poverty. In more recent
Lettuce_sandwich
Period in Argentine cinema history
doi:10.37334/eras.v5i4.125. ISSN 1647-3558. Retrieved 20 November 2022.[dead link] Manzano, Valeria (2014). The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics
Golden Age of Argentine cinema
Golden_Age_of_Argentine_cinema
North American sports idiom
Machine Before Jackie: The Life And Times Of Moses Fleetwood Walker[permanent dead link] toledoblade.com – Prestige of 1st black major leaguer likely no longer
Cup_of_coffee_(sports_idiom)
American political controversy circa 1981
Reconciliation Act of 1981"". THOMAS. Retrieved October 15, 2012.[permanent dead link] (September 4, 1981), "National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and
Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
Internet meme satirizing Xi Jinping
internet censorship]. Yahoo! Japan News (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-05-20.[dead link] "Activists wear Winnie the Pooh masks to protest China's Xi". Agence
Rubao_culture
English phrase
everything". In her view, Lawrence finds no contradiction between "the use of metaphor and the expression of literal truth." Peters comments that Lawrence satirizes
The_quick_and_the_dead
Motif and a group of related folktales
Grateful dead (or grateful ghost) is both a motif and a group of related folktales present in many cultures throughout the world. The most common story
Grateful_dead_(folklore)
Canadian playwright and screenwriter (born 1947)
Civilization Heaven (2000) And So It Goes... (2010) King of Thieves (2010) Dead Metaphor (2013) The Burden of Self Awareness (2014) The Ravine (2014) Parents
George_F._Walker
American linguist (born 1941)
thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. Lakoff served as professor of linguistics
George_Lakoff
Idiom about futile effort
Flogging a dead horse (or beating a dead horse in American English) is an idiom meaning that a particular effort is futile. The expression is said to
Flogging_a_dead_horse
British priest (1931–2010)
Retrieved 2022-04-18. Warren, E. Janet (2012). "'Spiritual Warfare': A Dead Metaphor?". Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 21 (2): 278–297. doi:10.1163/17455251-02102007
Michael_Harper_(priest)
Ship with no living people on board
Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste. The term is sometimes used for ships that have been
Ghost_ship
Hypothesis of language influencing thought
Colin Murray Turbayne also argued that the pervasive use of ancient "dead metaphors" by researchers within different linguistic traditions has contributed
Linguistic_relativity
Epic poem attributed to Homer
characteristic of the language is the Homeric simile. These are comparative metaphors that can be long or short, typically deriving from the natural world or
Odyssey
Metaphor: ReFantazio antagonist
is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2024 video game Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is responsible for the assassination of the king of the
Louis_Guiabern
Idiom and metaphor in the English language
"The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g. "he's the
The_real_McCoy
Parliamentary procedure of the United States Senate invoked to amend rules of discussion
as a last resort with possibly major consequences for both sides. The metaphor of a nuclear strike refers to the majority party unilaterally imposing
Nuclear_option
Combination of wit and virtue
philosophers argue that wisdom serves to clarify the manner in which ancient dead metaphors continue to cloud mankind's attainment of knowledge and our understanding
Wisdom
them. See English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. Examination of the ethnocultural relevance of these idioms in
List_of_sports_idioms
Canadian art collector, businessman (b. 1944)
Misérables (2013) God of Carnage (2013) The Last Confession (2014) Dead Metaphor (2014) The Heart of Robin Hood (2014) Blades on Stage (2014) Blithe
David_Mirvish
Epic poem attributed to Homer
(for its own sake) or if such godly behaviors are mere human character metaphors.[page needed] The intellectual interest of 5th- and 4th-century BC authors
Iliad
Indian journalist
Bombay bombings. In 2009, Trehan published her first book, Tehelka as Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth, examining the 2001 Operation West End
Madhu_Trehan
2017 novel by Haruki Murakami
volumes–The Idea Made Visible (顕れるイデア編, Arawareru idea hen) and The Shifting Metaphor (遷ろうメタファー編, Utsurou metafā hen), respectively–by Shinchosha in Japan on
Killing_Commendatore
1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson
Cyberspace's reliance on the circulation of data can be understood as a metaphor for the global circulation of financial capital, and its addictiveness
Neuromancer
2010 British film
initially helps the film's atmosphere but eventually overwhelms it with metaphors of violence in Africa. John DeFore of The Washington Post criticized casting
The_Dead_(2010_film)
Mythical being in Native American folklore
other than some Native American-European relations. It can serve as a metaphor explaining any pattern of domination by which groups subjugate and dominate
Wendigo
Chinese phrase
of the phrase chu gou (芻狗) to compare living beings to straw dogs. This metaphor is used to explain the non-humanity (不仁 bu ren) of Heaven and Earth: 天地不仁
Straw_dog
Underworld in the Hebrew Bible
therefore somewhat unclear; it may be interpreted as either a generic metaphor describing "the grave" into which all humans invariably descend, or an
Sheol
Obscene raising of the middle finger
Associated Press. December 28, 1976. p. 2A. Retrieved July 17, 2012.[permanent dead link] "Leonard Backing Court Appeal On Middle Finger". The Hour. United Press
The_finger
Divide-and-conquer process of threats and alliances to overcome opposition
"Yes, Prime Minister - The Grand Design". YouTube. Retrieved 28 May 2018.[dead YouTube link] Horvath, John. 2000. Salami Tactics, Telepolis, at Heise.de
Salami slicing tactics (politics)
Salami_slicing_tactics_(politics)
1927 poem by Allen Tate
Instead, Tate uses the graveyard and the dead Confederate soldiers as a metaphor for his narrator's troubled state of mind, and the poem charts the narrator's
Ode_to_the_Confederate_Dead
Baptizing a person on behalf of one who is dead
resurrection. Some modern commentators understand "baptism for the dead" as a metaphor for martyrdom, pointing to New Testament passages such as Mark 10:38
Baptism_for_the_dead
Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received
O_Captain!_My_Captain!
Monty Python sketch (1969)
The "Dead Parrot sketch", alternatively and originally known as the "Pet Shop sketch" or "Parrot sketch", is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Dead_Parrot_sketch
2026 film by Kane Parsons
and the mysterious workings of the unconscious, and sprinkles on some metaphors about gentrification as a repression of the past for good measure." Lex
Backrooms_(film)
Hypothesis in psychology
are transmitted to the left hemisphere via auditory hallucinations. The metaphor is based on the idea of lateralization of brain function, although each
Bicameral_mentality
Iranian derogatory political term for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's entourage
Research & Policy Studies (Assessment Report), Doha, May 2011[permanent dead link] Borger, Julian (22 June 2009). "Mojtaba Khamenei: gatekeeper to Iran's
Deviant_current
Computational method used to solve optimization problems of different types
the stop condition is satisfied, stop, if not go to 2. 8) End List of metaphor-based metaheuristics Atashpaz-Gargari, E.; Lucas, C (2007). "Imperialist
Imperialist competitive algorithm
Imperialist_competitive_algorithm
Video game genre
notably light gun shooters such as Time Crisis (1995) and The House of the Dead (1996). Panzer Dragoon (1995) and Panzer Dragoon II Zwei (1996) were two
Rail_shooter
Chinese novella
end of the story, Eileen Chang writes that, "the moon thirty years ago are dead but the story of thirty years ago is not yet ended- can have no ending".
The_Golden_Cangue
Color
of black computers like the IBM ThinkPad. Beige is sometimes used as a metaphor for something that is bland, boring, conventional, or even sad. In this
Beige
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