dead metaphors

dead metaphor

• 【语言学】亡隐喻(通过长期使用而失去其隐喻义的词或短语)

• dispatch cases
• geostationary orbit
• myoelectric potential
• inhabitations
• electrophotograph
• handy viewer
• owner-operator
• trackman
• Sitka
• overused
• bewrites
• Volgograd
• rootstock
• ack emma
• fall from sb's lips
• violas
• ens legis
• Ulothrix
• halfcoat
• vv.
• peristomatic
• have your nose in sth
• built terrace
• Chionididae
• sticker shock
• lost property
• loaded dice
• aim for
• bedsores
• agoutas
• foison
• Pseudococcidae
• open-door policies
• yupsky
• anorthosite
• profligately
• bring / call sth to mind
• abus er
• marantic
• actual compulsion
• capacitated
• March fly
• cassingles
• autotoxins
• strategizer
• put teeth into (或 in)
• palaeobotany
• bury one's head in the sand
• Chinaman
• asparaginous
• be it true or not
• asymptomatics
• urinated
• thionines
• procedure-oriented
• I know
• nasalisations
• altoists
• Astyanax
• congruences
• past definite
• quatercentennial
• grab onto
• prime rates
• from head to foot
• velvet plants
• legitimisations
• combination distributing frame
• the region beyond the grave
• alkalines
• countered
• stipel
• get / find your bearings
• run sb off sth
• statistical inference
• urbanology
• evil thoughts
• C-terminal
• bill of sight
• resorcinol diglycidyl ether
• cyano group
• recoupments
• nervous
• Baffin Bay
• tell sb’s fortune from cards
• civil state
• Krugerrand
• uterometer
• remainder
• diphenylguanidine
• ductus deferenss
• confidingly
• … or something
• h
• Gilson, Étienne Henry
• danthonias
• knife-line attach
• gnaw away
• patener
• spondylagia