catch-22 betydelse and definition

Betydelse av catch-22 på svenska

• 0 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:

  • a catch-22 situation

• 1 a situation in which there are only two possibilities, and you cannot do either because each depends on having done the other first

• 2 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.