| NOUN | artifact | blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
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| act | blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement |
| Meaning | A street with only one way in or out. | |
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| Synonyms | cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse | |
| Broader | thoroughfare | A public road from one place to another |
| Spanish | callejón sin salida, calle sin salida | |
| Catalan | carreró sense sortida, cul-de-sac | |
| Meaning | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement. | |
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| Broader | course, course of action | A mode of action |
| Usage of | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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