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Catch-22

  [kach-twen-tee-too]
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–noun, plural Catch-22's, Catch-22s.
1. a frustrating situation in which one is trapped by contradictory regulations or conditions.
2. any illogical or paradoxical problem or situation; dilemma.
3. a condition, regulation, etc., preventing the resolution of a problem or situation; catch.
Origin:
from a military regulation in a novel of the same name (1961) by U.S. novelist Joseph Heller (born 1923)
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