blind alley
死胡同,盲道,盲巷,死胡同里
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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Examples
The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
And in this era of impact-blind, across-the-board budget cuts, we see an opportunity.
What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger.
Sandra Bullock won for ‘The Blind Side’ and Al Pacino lost for both Godfather movies.
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
On May 13 Polavieja arrived in Barcelona physically broken, half blind, and with evident traces of a disordered liver.
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
Truly it was a most enjoyable season and experience, but there is no joy without its alley here below—not even at the North Pole!
I do not wholly like these cold and stately English, yet I think I am not blind to their many sterling qualities.
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.