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a blind alley a method of thinking or acting which is not effective because it does not produce any results. The latest evolutionary theory may turn out to be a blind alley. |
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With that thought in his heart, Richard Turlington wound his way through the streets by the river-side, and stopped at a blind alley called Green Anchor Lane, infamous to this day as the chosen resort of the most abandoned wretches whom London can produce. And he did not like it when the process of reasoning brought him into a blind alley. I could have told him from the beginning that this obsession of his over the coffee was bound to end in a blind alley, but I restrained my tongue. |
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