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.
See also:
  • 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