2007-01-06 18:44:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
A catch 22 is a lose-lose situation...a damned if you do, damned if you don't kinda thing. Although I don't know why it's called that.
2007-01-06 18:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by concretebrunette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A catch-22 is more than just a situation in which all of one's choices have unfortunate consequences. It is a situation whose perverse logic, either intentionally or accidentally, traps a person so that the very act of trying to make any choice at all immediately blocks him from ever making that choice. In the book, the only way for people to get out of going on dangerous missions was for them to show that they were insane, but then since insane behavior could made them safer, it was taken as proof that they were sane.
(Trivia - The original title of the book was Catch-18, but an editor changed it to Catch-22.)
2007-01-06 20:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by wild_turkey_willie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catch-22 is a general critique of bureaucratic operation and reasoning. Resulting from its specific use in the book, the phrase "Catch-22" is common idiomatic usage meaning "a no-win situation" or "a double bind" of any type. Within the book, "Catch-22" is a military rule, the self-contradictory circular logic of which, for example, prevents anyone from avoiding combat missions. In Heller's own words:
2007-01-06 18:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by Asking for a social outcry 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-30 05:32:05 · answer #4 · answered by arrocha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A catch 22 is when you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. There is no good solution/no right or wrong. It happens a lot in life.
2007-01-06 18:48:43 · answer #5 · answered by momx3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
refers to a situation in a Heller Novel "Catch 22" when you are in a position where you are caught btwn two unsavory or impossible choices that will each come back to haunt you or where you can't do one thing without having done the other and visa versa.
2007-01-06 18:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by D.A.L. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coming from the book of the same name, it refers to a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't or a no-win situation.
2007-01-07 04:10:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
another way of saying you are between a rock and a hard place...where you may be trying to decide what to do, but whatever option you choose is liable to bring about negative consequences. not a good place to be
2007-01-06 18:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by rainydaydreamr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SIMPLY PUT
IT IS A NO WIN SITUATION
CONDEMNED IF YOU DO
CONDEMNED IF YOU DON'T
Catch 22 STINKS!
2007-01-06 23:58:29 · answer #9 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's an example. You can't get the job you want without experience, but you can't get exprience until you get the job.
Sucks, doesn't it.
2007-01-06 18:55:44 · answer #10 · answered by Pens 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋