Translations for „blind alley“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

blind alley N a. fig

blind alley

ślepa uliczka f

to lead sb up [or down] a blind alley alley

zapędzać [perf zapędzić] kogoś w ślepą uliczkę

Usage examples with blind alley

blind alley a. fig

ślepa uliczka

to lead sb up [or down] a blind alley alley

zapędzać [perf zapędzić] kogoś w ślepą uliczkę

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was a dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley.

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Certainly, in purely evolutionary terms, atheism is a blind alley.

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The boys search around for a room to rent, and hit blind alley after blind alley until finally settling for an open-lot-turned living quarters.

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It is always impossible, when there is some big policy innovation, to know whether it is a blind alley or the start of something big.

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In the end, that's a blind alley -- we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

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Instead of making a breakthrough, we found ourselves up a blind alley.

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A wrong strategic move (we have seen plenty of them over the years) can send a business into a blind alley.

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Some modifications during the actual writing process are inevitable, but there's never a sense of going out on a limb, or down a blind alley.

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Everyone seemed to be running into a blind alley.

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No matter which way our brain may twist and turn, our thought processes always end up in a blind alley.

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