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catch-22noun a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognizedthe drug lowers cholesterol, but the catch-22 is that it mainly lowers good cholesterol booby trap, catch, gimmick, gotcha, hitch, joker, land mine, pitfall, snag snare, trap, trip wire, webhazard, peril, riskbomb, bombshell, kicker, surprise(also surprize)bait, decoy, lure a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe catch-22 faced by every first-time loan applicant: how to get a loan without a credit history bind, box, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choicesan environmental catch-22: building wind farms results in scenic eyesores; not building wind farms results in greater pollution from fossil fuels dilemma, double bind, quandary deadlock, impasse, quagmire, stalemate, standoffknot, problembind, difficulty, fix, hole, jam, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, spot breeze, cinch, duck soup, snap in 1963 |