ways out
Doors to freedom
Ways out are exits or escape routes, literal or figurative.
A building has ways out; a difficult situation may have none.
There's no easy way out of this mess.
The fire marshal required two ways out from every floor.
The phrase emphasizes options for departure or resolution when circumstances feel confining.
- doorHinged room barrier
- exitWay to leave
- back doorSecondary building entrance
- loopholesExploitable ambiguities in rules
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
gate · escape · solution · workaround · liberation · alternative · last resort · egress · passage · safe passage · escape clause · window · hatch · bolt-hole · breakthrough · force majeure · opening · avoidance
ways outdead ends
Routes with no exit
no exit · traps · entrapment · impasses · cages
ways outdead ends
Routes with no exit
blind alleys · roadblocks · barriers · walls · obstructions
ways outcatch-22s
Self-defeating rule situations
no-win situations · predicaments · quagmires · stalemates · gridlock
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