blind alley

English Thesaurus

1. (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement (noun.act)

hypernym	:	course, course of action,
definition	:	a mode of action (noun.act)

domain usage	:	figure, figure of speech, image, trope,
definition	:	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)

2. a street with only one way in or out (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	thoroughfare,
definition	:	a public road from one place to another (noun.artifact)