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Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse

Book by Karen Sullivan · 4 quotes · Metaphor, Meaning, Concept

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“The ‘death’ of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. ‘Dead’ metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally ‘outlive’ the specific words and expressions that involve them.”