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Blind Alley

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Noun

1. blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse

a street with only one way in or out

2. blind alley

(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement

Example Sentences:
'all the clues led the police into blind alleys'
'so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blind Alley

see synonyms of blind alley
noun
1. 
an alley open at one end only; cul-de-sac
2. informal
a situation in which no further progress can be made

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Blind Alley

see synonyms of blind alley
1. 
an alley or passage shut off at one end
2. 
any undertaking, idea, etc. that leads to nothing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blind Alley

see synonyms of blind alley
n.
1. An alley or passage that is closed at one end.
2. A mistaken, unproductive undertaking.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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