blind alley

Davies said he was just asking people's views, but his predecessor Lord Bourne warned the party against going down a "blind alley".

The Welsh Conservative's Senedd leader has been warned against going down a "blind alley" of trying to debate the abolition of the Welsh Parliament.

In many cases, the threat of costly legal action can silence critics, leaving the scientific record uncorrected, which risks other researchers wasting funding by chasing down blind alleys.

The lessons gleaned from "End Times" could help redirect us away from blind alleys as we seek to find our way through the challenges confronting us in the turbulent 2020s.

Cabinet of scapegoating Albanians because it “has gone down a blind alley with its new policy resulting from Brexit.”