• n.
    ⦿(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
    lexical concept
  • 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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:blind alley
wn:interlingual indexili:i35613

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelblind alley