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blind alley

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Noun

(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

a street with only one way in or out

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Synonyms:
cul de sac dead-end street impasse

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