blind alley

1. An alley or passage that is closed at one end.

2. A mistaken, unproductive undertaking.

blind alley

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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Noun	1.	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

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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.

Miss or Mrs.? by Collins, Wilkie View in context

And he did not like it when the process of reasoning brought him into a blind alley.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Christie, Agatha View in context

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