| 词汇 | catch 22 |
| 释义 | Idiom catch 22 a situation where one thing must happen in order to cause another thing to happen, but because the first thing does not happen the second thing cannot happen.If you don't have a place to stay, you can't get a job and with no job, you can't get an apartment. It's a catch 22 situation. catch 22 noun a self-cancelling dilemma. Coined by Joseph Heller for his 1955 novel Catch 22, which was originally to be titled 'Catch 18' – until Mila 18 by Leon Uris was published US, 1977 |
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