Turn of phrase?
Catch 22?
I never knew what they meant and now they're showing up in like every book I read!!!
2007-08-02 12:10:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You turn a phrase to make a colorfuls tatement
Catch-22 (from the book of the same name) states a contradiciton in terms.
You can't get a job unless you have experience, but you can't get expereince until you get a job
2007-08-02 12:15:23 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, Catch 22, along with being a great book means that you are in a situation where, whichever why you chose, the outcome isn't going to be favorable.
I've never actually heard anyone use the phrase "turn of phrase" so I can't help you there.
2007-08-02 19:14:50 · answer #2 · answered by Christina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turn of phrase = a way of saying something
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/turn+of+phrase
catch 22 = Among other things, 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.
2007-08-02 19:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn of phrase: Technically, in rhetoric, a figure of speech which consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to it.
Read the book "Catch 22"
2007-08-02 19:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by 1Netzari 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
catch 22 is a no win situation
turn of phrase, is a saying or a way things are said!
Hope that helps! Enjoy your reading!
2007-08-02 19:15:18 · answer #5 · answered by Lindy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catch 22 is from the book of that title. It means a catch or requirement that can't be overcome. In the book, to get out of the army you have to be declared crazy, but if you want to get out - then you're not crazy.
Another example would be if you have to take English 101 before you can take English 102, but you can't take English 101 without passing English 102.
2007-08-02 19:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by PJH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Catch-22" means a trap created by mutually frustrating
regulations. It was coined by Joseph Heller in his 1961 novel
Catch-22, which satirized military illogic.
"Turn of phrase"
- move to face different direction: to move to face in a different direction or toward a particular location, or move something so that it does this
- move around axis: to move around an axis or point in a particular direction, or move something in this way
- use control to operate something: to control...
2007-08-02 19:16:08 · answer #7 · answered by sph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋