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depends on usage. Idiomatic phrases that are unoriginal are cliche. A heart can never literally be brave and if you are using phrases like "cold touch" exclusively as literal expressions in poetry than you might be wasting space . . .

phrases like "sleep now old bones" are not telling literal old bones to sleep, they are speaking figuratively.

been there, done that.

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Agreed.

I use those words in their least literally sense.

Interestingly enough...if you type "sleep now old bones" in Google; you get zero results.