{"id":"00039311-n","lexname":"noun.act","members":[{"lemma":"blind alley","sense":{"id":"blind_alley%1:04:00::"},"poskey":"n"}],"definition":["(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement"],"example":["all the clues led the police into blind alleys","so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"],"ili":"i35613","partOfSpeech":"n","exemplifies":["07120141-n"],"hypernym":["00039000-n"]}