a road to nowhere

road to nowhere

A plan, project, development, or course of action that appears to have or offer no meaningful, desirable, or useful conclusion. After three years of on-again, off-again development, critics of the massive hotel say it has become a road to nowhere. The blame game going on between our two parties is a road to nowhere—instead of fighting, we need to be working together to find solutions.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a road to nowhere

a situation or course of action offering no prospects of progress or advancement.
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See also:
  • road to nowhere
  • things will work out
  • be the best of a bad bunch
  • be the best of a bad lot
  • have (something) to offer
  • have something to offer
  • get to
  • get to (do something)
  • do better to (do something)
  • do better to do something