单词	Catch-22
释义	Catch-22Catch-22 /ˌkætʃ twentiˈtuː/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcatch-22 Origin: 1900-2000 Catch-22 book (1961) by Joseph Heller in which such situations are described Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS This is a Catch-22 I don't think rugby will be able to spin out of in this country. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► Catch-22 situation  It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience. an impossible situation that you cannot solve because you need to do one thing in order to do a second thing, but you cannot do the first thing until you have done the second:  It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.
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