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A Dormant metaphor is a metaphor such as 'we're getting in over our heads' which tends to petrify into clichés and whose figurative nature slumbers just below the surface.
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A Dormant metaphor is a metaphor such as 'we're getting in over our heads' which tends to petrify into clichés and whose figurative nature slumbers just below the surface.