frozen metaphor
NOUN
15 LETTERS · STARTS WITH F
frozen metaphor is a valid 15-letter word worth 33 points in Scrabble and 35 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
F4R1O1Z10E1N1M3E1T1A1P3H4O1R1
4 + 1 + 1 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 1 =33 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 66TRIPLE WORD → 99
MEANING
What does frozen metaphor mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
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').
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