callejón sin salida

callejón sin salida

cul-de-sac, dead end, blind alley

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a) (calle) dead end, blind alley

b) (situación desesperada): el gobierno se encuentra en un callejón sin salida the government can't see its way out of its present situation

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(n.) = blind alley, catch 22, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, dead end street, deadlock, standoff

Ex. It is of course possible to stamp 'Withdrawn' on the accessions card, but it would be better not to lead the reader up this blind alley if it can be avoided.

Ex. The catch 22 aspect of this attempt to reconcile the needs of research and nonresearch libraries is that our central cataloging agency, the Library of Congress (LC), does not provide dual cataloging copy.

Ex. If no such standards can be observed then, it would seem, romantic fiction along with westerns and detective stories must be regarded as some sort of cul-de-sac and rather stagnant backwater quite separate from the main stream of 'literature'.

Ex. Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end.

Ex. This apparent impasse between what we may want to communicate and the way we communicate is resolved by separating the content of information from its representation.

Ex. The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.

Ex. By doing so, they could help break a deadlock that seems to have paralyzed cooperative effort in Britain.

Ex. A 12-hour standoff ended with a man lobbing Molotov cocktails at police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he'd lost to foreclosure.

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a) (calle) dead end, blind alley

b) (situación desesperada): el gobierno se encuentra en un callejón sin salida the government can't see its way out of its present situation

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(n.) = blind alley, catch 22, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, dead end street, deadlock, standoff

Ex: It is of course possible to stamp 'Withdrawn' on the accessions card, but it would be better not to lead the reader up this blind alley if it can be avoided.

Ex: The catch 22 aspect of this attempt to reconcile the needs of research and nonresearch libraries is that our central cataloging agency, the Library of Congress (LC), does not provide dual cataloging copy.

Ex: If no such standards can be observed then, it would seem, romantic fiction along with westerns and detective stories must be regarded as some sort of cul-de-sac and rather stagnant backwater quite separate from the main stream of 'literature'.

Ex: Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end.

Ex: This apparent impasse between what we may want to communicate and the way we communicate is resolved by separating the content of information from its representation.

Ex: The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.

Ex: By doing so, they could help break a deadlock that seems to have paralyzed cooperative effort in Britain.

Ex: A 12-hour standoff ended with a man lobbing Molotov cocktails at police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he'd lost to foreclosure.

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callejón sin salida

blind alley; fig

dead end