cul-de-sac
cul-de-sac
A circular street with only one opening for ingress or egress. I grew up on an idyllic cul-de-sac in the suburbs with many of my friends as neighbors. Aw man, this is a cul-de-sac and not a regular street? Guess I'm not cutting through to that neighborhood from here then.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- sac
- locked down
- pull around to
- pull around to (something or some place)
- trip along
- circle around
- holding pattern
- in a holding pattern
- pattern
- ring off