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Definition. A dead metaphor is traditionally defined as a figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use. Also known as a frozen metaphor or a historical metaphor. Contrast with creative metaphor.
Others use dead metaphor to denote both. A mixed metaphor is a metaphor that leaps from one identification to a second inconsistent with the first, e.g.: I smell a rat [...] but I'll nip him in the bud-Irish politician Boyle Roche. This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: