no outlet
Street terminates here
No outlet appears on road signs to warn drivers that the road ahead doesn't connect to another through street—you'll have to turn around and come back the way you came.
The phrase sometimes extends metaphorically to situations offering no escape or resolution: His anger had no outlet.
- dead endPassage without outlet
- cul-de-sacStreet closed at end
- blockedPassage prevented or impeded
- trappedUnable to escape
- boxed inConfined without options
dead end street · stuck · impasse · back against the wall · brick wall · frustration · wall · barrier · closed · sign · street · traffic sign · escape · passage · detour · turning · suffocating · cornered
- traffic signsstop signs, stop sign, yield signs, yield sign, speed limit signs
- stagnationstagnation, standstill, stasis, deadlock, stalemate
no outletthoroughfare
Main public road
main road · arterial road · through traffic · cross street · connector
no outletway out
Means of departure
exit · escape route · release · safety valve · vent
outlet, not, neither, none, nothing, nobody, nowhere, out, let