参考词典中frozen metaphor的常规释义：
英英解释
- 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')
[同]
dead metaphor, frozen metaphor
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