Term: dead metaphor: 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')
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: hibbertia: evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: slave ant: any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: civet: cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: maid: a female domestic
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: spume: foam or froth on the sea
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: change: money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: molestation: the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children)
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: non-engagement: withdrawing from the activities of a group
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: brick: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: calcium stearate: an insoluble calcium salt of stearic acid and palmitic acid; it is formed when soap is mixed with water that contains calcium ions and is the scum produced in regions of hard water