lead nowhere



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lead nowhere

To ultimately yield or achieve no useful, beneficial, or successful result or outcome. This meeting is leading nowhere. We've been here for over two hours now and haven't even been able to come up with a name for our product! It appears that talks between Democrats and Republicans on a compromised spending bill have led nowhere.
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Sovanna-Khmer
Torborg-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
CarmenKAHR-men (Spanish), KAHR-mən (English)Spanish, English, Italian, Romanian
Ghassan-Arabic
Ramla-Arabic
MÁRcio-Portuguese