blind alley

Speech parts

1. blind alley - Noun

2. blind alley - Phrase

Meaning

a street with only one way in or out

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

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

blind-alley

Synonyms

cul-de-sac impasse dead end dead-end street logjam stop corner halt stalemate deadlock stoppage standstill standoff catch-22 double bind
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Antonyms

development growth advance improvement progression advancement
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Hypernyms

course thoroughfare course of action

Examples

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain", into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. Richard Feynman

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley. Hunter S. Thompson

Practised for centuries, repression has so badly succeeded that it has but led us into a blind alley from which we can only issue by carrying torch and hatchet into the institutions of our authoritarian past. Peter Kropotkin

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

all the clues led the police into blind alleys Source: Internet

so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

blind alley

Close letter words and terms

blind acquiescence blind adherence blind allegiance blind angle blind area blind as a bat