Blind Alley (A).
A “cul de sac,” an alley with no outlet. It is blind because it has no “eye” or passage through it.
A “cul de sac,” an alley with no outlet. It is blind because it has no “eye” or passage through it.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.