noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ dark , darkened
▪ deserted , empty ( esp. AmE )
▪ little , narrow
▪
a maze of narrow ~s
▪ cobbled ( esp. BrE )
▪ back , side
▪ blind ( figurative )
▪
Over-reliance on statistics has led us down a blind ~.
ALLEY + VERB
▪ lead onto sth , lead to sth
▪
The ~ leads to the restaurant kitchen.
ALLEY + NOUN
▪ cat
PREPOSITION
▪ along an/the ~ , down an/the ~ , up an/the ~
▪
I walked back along a side ~.
▪
a bar down a little ~
▪ in an/the ~
▪
They had cornered him in an ~.
▪ through an/the ~
▪
She wandered through the back ~s.