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 Translation for 'catch 22 situation' from English to French
situation {f} inextricablecatch-22 situation [idiom]
Partial Matches
cercle {m} vicieuxcatch-22
cycle {m} infernalcatch-22
situation {f}situation
contexte {m} [conjoncture]situation
conjoncture {f}situation
écon.
conjoncture {f} économique
economic situation
situation {f} pas tenableuntenable situation
situation {f} délicateawkward situation
situation {f} de menacethreat situation
situation {f} d'urgenceemergency situation
scénario {m} catastrophedisaster situation
donne {f} [fig.]overall situation
donne {f} [fig.]general situation
situation {f} épineuse [difficile]tricky situation
fin.
situation {f} financière
financial situation
pol.
situation {f} politique
political situation
situation {f} de blocagedeadlock situation
artsRadioTVthéâtre
comédie {f} de situation
situation comedy
situation {f} précairedelicate situation
situation {f} explosivestrained situation
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Usage Examples English
  • This has created a catch 22 situation for Baseball NT whereby it understands that by developing home-grown talent, there is a good possibility these players will be lost to southern leagues, unlikely to return to the Northern Territory.
  • Meeks also indicated that users wouldn't embrace desktop Linux until there is a wider range of applications and developers won't create that wider range of applications until there are more users, a classic Catch-22 situation.
  • This is a catch 22 situation holding up the commencement of construction.
  • Even journalists in Pittsburgh felt that the price was high, and with Bettis being a pending free agent in 1997 with the expiration of his rookie contract put the Steelers into a catch-22 situation, as the trade was either going to be for naught if Bettis struggled, or with the Steelers up against the salary cap too expensive to retain Bettis if he was successful.
  • In 2016, Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, said the criteria for claiming benefits in the UK were "a , "Catch-22" situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary".

  • The Imperial Japanese Navy was caught in a Catch-22 situation, since American airpower from Henderson Field denied the Japanese the use of slow cargo ships.
  • However, citizens have been unable to demonstrate standing because the NSA has argued successfully that the evidence needed for that task must remain secret, thus creating a Catch-22 situation.
  • Inspired by the Joseph Heller novel, the organisation's name refers to the catch-22 situation faced by many of the people with whom it works.
  • Due to the delay Iceland found itself caught in a classic catch-22 situation, loans from other countries could not be secured until the IMF program had been approved.
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