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Meaning of blind alley | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blind, alley. A street or passageway that leads nowhere.
A course of inquiry that leads nowhere.
figuratively

Examples

“[Raheem] Sterling was grateful that a glaring miss from [Jesse] Lingard's pass was rescued by a linesman's flag against the Manchester United midfielder, but he almost tried too hard as the game progressed and was running up blind alleys before he was replaced by Marcus Rashford after 68 minutes.”

“"We looked into lots of blind alleys for re-engineering our fleet. […]."”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

blind as a bat blind axle blind bag Blind Bight blind bit blind boil