dead-end street

Noun

Meaning

a street with only one way in or out

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar

Life is a dead-end street. H. L. Mencken

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. Viggo Mortensen

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. Cullen Hightower

Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite. Chinese Proverb

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