Callejón in english
Alley
pronunciation: æli part of speech: noun
pronunciation: æli part of speech: noun
In gestures
callejón = back alley ; side-street ; side lane ; alley ; alleyway ; back lane.
Example: 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.Example: 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.Example: The back entrance is off of Huntington Avenue in a service road/side lane behind the Prudential Tower.Example: The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.Example: Upon questioning we find that those eminently pragmatic down-to-earth notions dwell in the darkest alleyways of metaphysics.Example: You don't know me, but I live in one of the apartments across the back lane from your house.more:
» callejón de servicio = service road .
Example: The back entrance is off of Huntington Avenue in a service road/side lane behind the Prudential Tower.» callejón oscuro = dark alley .
Example: 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 = blind alley ; catch 22 [Situación problemática de la que no hay salida] ; cul-de-sac ; dead end ; impasse ; dead end street ; deadlock ; standoff ; double bind ; no-way-out street .
Example: It is of course possible to stamp 'Withdrawn' on the accessions card, but it would be better not to lead the reader up this blind alley if it can be avoided. Example: 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. Example: 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'. Example: Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end. Example: 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. Example: The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'. Example: By doing so, they could help break a deadlock that seems to have paralyzed cooperative effort in Britain. Example: 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. Example: Bateson suggest that a person caught in a 'double bind' may develop schizophrenic symptoms. Example: It sounds weird but in my short no-way-out street there are two wheelchairs parked permanently.» encontarse en un callejón sin salida = hit + a (brick) wall .
Example: You ever have those moments when you are making great progress, and things seem to be coming together, and then suddenly you hit a wall and can't get anything else done?.» encontrarse en un callejón sin salida = deadlock ; come up against + a brick wall ; be up against a brick wall .
Example: Democratic leaders are pillorying Republicans as negotiations are deadlocked over raising money for infrastructure spending. Example: There are moments when someone feels that they have come up against a brick wall and they don't quite know where to turn next. Example: Have you ever been in a situation in which you were up against a brick wall and felt there was absolutely no where to turn?.» estar en un callejón sin salida = deadlock ; come up against + a brick wall ; be up against a brick wall ; hit + a (brick) wall .
Example: Democratic leaders are pillorying Republicans as negotiations are deadlocked over raising money for infrastructure spending. Example: There are moments when someone feels that they have come up against a brick wall and they don't quite know where to turn next. Example: Have you ever been in a situation in which you were up against a brick wall and felt there was absolutely no where to turn?. Example: You ever have those moments when you are making great progress, and things seem to be coming together, and then suddenly you hit a wall and can't get anything else done?.