callejón
back alley ; side-street ; side lane ; alley ; alleyway ; back lane.
The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.
To gain an idea of the fineness of detail necessary to produce the circuit elements on the chip, imagine a map of the British Isles showing sufficient detail to identify even the narrowest side-street in London.
The back entrance is off of Huntington Avenue in a service road/side lane behind the Prudential Tower.
The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.
Upon questioning we find that those eminently pragmatic down-to-earth notions dwell in the darkest alleyways of metaphysics.
You don't know me, but I live in one of the apartments across the back lane from your house.
callejón de servicio
service road
The back entrance is off of Huntington Avenue in a service road/side lane behind the Prudential Tower.
callejón oscuro
dark alley
English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.
callejón sin salida [Situación problemática de la que no hay salida]
blind alley
catch 22
cul-de-sac
dead end
impasse
dead end street
deadlock
standoff
double bind
no-way-out street
It is of course possible to stamp 'Withdrawn' on the accessions card, but it would be better not to lead the reader up this blind alley if it can be avoided.
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.
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'.
Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end.
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.
The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.
By doing so, they could help break a deadlock that seems to have paralyzed cooperative effort in Britain.
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.
Bateson suggest that a person caught in a 'double bind' may develop schizophrenic symptoms.
It sounds weird but in my short no-way-out street there are two wheelchairs parked permanently.
