blind alley

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noun

1. a street with only one way in or out
• Syn:
cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse
• Hypernyms:
thoroughfare
2. (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
• Usage Domain:
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
• Hypernyms:
course, course of action

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse