n00038573
type | n |
lex_filenum | 04 |
def | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement |
examples | all the clues led the police into blind alleys so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley |
Outgoing links | |
Hypernym | course, course of action |
Domain of synset - USAGE | trope, figure of speech, figure, image |
Incoming links | |
Hyponym | course, course of action |
Member of this domain - USAGE | trope, figure of speech, figure, image |
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