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blind alley
noun
- a road, alley, etc., that is open at only one end.
- a position or situation offering no hope of progress or improvement:
That line of reasoning will only lead you up another blind alley.
blind alley
noun
- an alley open at one end only; cul-de-sac
- informal.a situation in which no further progress can be made
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blind alley1
Idioms and Phrases
A dead end; a position without hope of progress or success. For example, That line of questioning led the attorney up yet another blind alley . This term alludes to a street or alley that has no outlet at one end. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Davies said he was just asking people's views, but his predecessor Lord Bourne warned the party against going down a "blind alley".
The Welsh Conservative's Senedd leader has been warned against going down a "blind alley" of trying to debate the abolition of the Welsh Parliament.
In many cases, the threat of costly legal action can silence critics, leaving the scientific record uncorrected, which risks other researchers wasting funding by chasing down blind alleys.
The lessons gleaned from "End Times" could help redirect us away from blind alleys as we seek to find our way through the challenges confronting us in the turbulent 2020s.
Cabinet of scapegoating Albanians because it “has gone down a blind alley with its new policy resulting from Brexit.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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