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What is a blind alley?

What is a blind alley? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see blind,‎ alley. A street or passageway that leads nowhere.
  2. (figuratively) A course of inquiry that leads nowhere.
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It is a blind alley, and in my opinion it should be given very careful consideration.
It was the speech of a politician who is out of touch and has led his country up a blind alley.
A signboard proclaiming Question Papers Unlimited has sprung up on top of a non-descript building in a blind alley.
They disregard the billboards designed to divert them into this or that blind alley of ease and pleasure.
One civilian, Scarlett Ray Dodd, armed with an M1 Carbine, led them into a blind alley behind the Mennonite Church and dispatched of the entire mob.
Rangatiratanga is not about going one way down a blind alley to a hollow end.

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