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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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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.
We should finally stop pursuing this blind alley towards supposed accession.
Finally, with a magnificent sense of the dramatic, we were pinioned by headlights against a wall in a blind alley.
Kelly was subjected to a brow-beating from a group of MPs frustrated that they had been led up a blind alley.
Hidden away in a blind alley is a video installation by Susan Norrie.
A signboard proclaiming Question Papers Unlimited has sprung up on top of a non-descript building in a blind alley.

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