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catch-22
noun[ S or U ]
uk /ˌkætʃ.twen.tiˈtuː/ us /ˌkætʃ.twen.tiˈtuː/
an impossible situation where you are prevented from doing one thing until you have done another thing that you cannot do until you have done the first thing: 第22号军规；进退维谷的局面，两难情形
a catch-22 situation两难的处境
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
have someone over a barrelidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom
catch-22 | American Dictionary
catch-22
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkætʃ ˌtwen·t̬iˈtu, ˈketʃ/
a situation in which there are only two possibilities, and you cannot do either because each depends on having done the other first
catch-22 | Business English
catch-22
noun[ U ]
ukus
a difficult situation in which the solution to a problem is impossible because it is also the cause of the problem:
But it is a catch-22 situation - you can't get people without funding, but you can't get funding without the people there in the first place.
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