one-way street
Noun
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Noun
one-way street (plural one-way streets)
- A road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction.
- (figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone or does not lead to reciprocation.
- 2009, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health (page 186)
- Romantic love is not selfless but selfish. Although real love is not altruistic, nor is it narcissistic – a 'me-only', one-way street relationship.
- 2009, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health (page 186)
- French: rue à sens unique
- German: Einbahnstraße
- Portuguese: rua de mão única
- Russian: у́лица с односторо́нним движе́нием
- Spanish: calle de un solo sentido, calle de mano única (Argentina), flecha (Venezuela)
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