"dead metaphor" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 1, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]",
          "text": "It is meaningless to speak of the soul in the twenty-first century […]. It has become a dead metaphor, one of those words that survive in language long after a culture has lost faith in the concept, like an empty carapace that remains intact years after its animating organism has died.",
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