blind alley

Every new bit of information led into another blind alley.

Went down a blind alley and had to back out.

This is a blind alley and we must find a different way forward.

To them it must seem like running away up a blind alley.

I have to go down all these blind alleys first.

There had to be a way out of this blind alley.

This cannot be a blind alley, no sense to it.

And if not, it was just another blind alley, of which there were many in police work.

In each case, the reader is led down a blind alley.

This conversation was the only thing going up a blind alley.

He noted the house number; then moved into the blind alley.

It was just a blind alley, in case anyone managed to learn her new name.

In her search she often found herself going down blind alleys.

I follow the phrase right the way up a blind alley.

He suddenly had a feeling of having wandered into a blind alley.

A blind alley, the end of it too narrow for turning back?

"We're in the process of emerging from a blind alley."

Everybody knows that our financial and environmental systems are leading us up a blind alley.

When you come to a blind alley, you're ready to try almost anything."

There are surprises around every corner and a blind alley or two.

But this was a blind alley in the search for equal justice.

It was absolutely without issue- a mere blind alley in the earth.

They turned off to the left, and, after walking some hundred yards, found themselves in a blind alley.

You found all the blind alleys first, then there was only the right paths left.

"But I'm probably going to sniff down more than one blind alley along the way."