Talk:stale metaphor

"A metaphor which has lost its impact due to overuse." IMO, sum of parts, with stale in sense of "no longer new or interesting". Compare stale cliché, stale plot, stale idea, all findable on Google Books. Equinox ◑ 02:39, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. — Ungoliant (Falai) 20:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 23:20, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Purely SOP. bd2412 T 23:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Was going to delete, but dead metaphor makes it seem like this is a linguistic term. DAVilla 05:47, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Deleted. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 04:03, 3 July 2013 (UTC)