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BLIND ALLEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
Example:
so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("blind alley" is a kind of...):
course; course of action (a mode of action)
Domain usage:
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A street with only one way in or out
Synonyms:
blind alley; cul de sac; dead-end street; impasse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("blind alley" is a kind of...):
thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)
