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blind alley

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blind alley
n.
1. An alley or passage that is closed at one end.
2. A mistaken, unproductive undertaking.
blind alley
n
1. an alley open at one end only; cul-de-sac
2. Informal a situation in which no further progress can be made
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Noun1.blind alley - a street with only one way in or out
dead-end street, impasse, cul de sac
thoroughfare - a public road from one place to another
2.blind alley - (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "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"
course of action, course - a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Translations
blind alley n → vicolo cieco
blind alley n → vicolo cieco


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With that thought in his heart, Richard Turlington wound his way through the streets by the river-side, and stopped at a blind alley called Green Anchor Lane, infamous to this day as the chosen resort of the most abandoned wretches whom London can produce.
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And he did not like it when the process of reasoning brought him into a blind alley.
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I could have told him from the beginning that this obsession of his over the coffee was bound to end in a blind alley, but I restrained my tongue.
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