Possible Clues:

• Standstill
• Log jam six feet under part of canal
• Situation in which no progress can be made
• Situation allowing no progress
• Stalemate having gone to Yale?
• Lifeless rugby forward in stalemate
• Impasse with lifeless hair
• Lifeless hair? There’s no spring in it
• Lifeless hair: you can do nothing with it!
• Impasse, standoff