dead ends
Roads without outlet
Dead ends are roads or passages with no exit—you must turn back the way you came.
The term extends to any course of action that leads nowhere: The investigation hit a dead end, a career full of dead ends.
A dead-end job offers no advancement.
To dead-end is to reach such an impasse: The trail dead-ends at the river.
- cul-de-sacStreet closed at end
- catch-22Paradoxical no-win situation
- brick wallStacked masonry partition
- hitting a wallReaching an insurmountable obstacle
- impassesSituations without resolution
stalemate · deadlock · futility · going nowhere fast · blind alley · checkmate · standstill · logjam · at a standstill · gridlock · corner · wild goose chase · no-win situation · extinction · maladaptation · trap · roadblock · blockage
- burrow partstunnels, chambers, entrances, exits
- maze termspathfinding, exit, starting point, corridors, blind alleys
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- Mazesmaze, labyrinth, corn maze, hedge maze, ball maze
- maze featurespathways, entrances, exits, walls, junctions
dead endsthroughways
Roads for through traffic
thoroughfares · arterial roads · main roads · highways · intersections
dead endsbreakthroughs
Sudden significant advances
open doors · opportunities · solutions · openings · gateways
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