up a blind alley การใช้

• To isolate the problem of valid orders is to go up a blind alley.
• Everyone had gone up a blind alley where it seemed there was no future to them.
• In my view, that was a strategic error that led us up a blind alley and really ruined the country economically.
• "As far as the marijuana is concerned, I think in desperation if you're really up a blind alley, the survival instinct kicks in.
• "Given the growing Palestinian realization that the intefadeh has led them up a blind alley, maybe what they really need is a fig leaf that could be provided by a change in the Israeli leadership, " he said.
• The British journalist Nick Cohen, in explaining his switch to support for the wider war on terror, cited " Terror and Liberalism " as a major influence : " The only time I realised I was charging up a blind alley was when I read Paul Berman's " Terror and Liberalism ".
• Mencken, who reserved his harshest criticism for Christian ministers, wrote, in 1921 after the Gibbons'death, " More presidents than one sought the counsel of Cardinal Gibbons : he was a man of the highest sagacity, a politician in the best sense, and there is no record that he ever led the Church into a bog or up a blind alley.
• "Entretien dans un parc " reads like a refined, fastidious Beatles song : " With a sudden vision of incompetence / / I seize her hand / / In silence and we walk on as before / / And apparently the world has not been changed . . . It all becomes at last a bit ridiculous . . . Up a blind alley, stopped with broken walls / / Papered with posters, chalked with childish scrawls ! / / But if we could have given ourselves the slip / / What explanations might have been escaped ."