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catch-22'snounor catch-22spl. of catch-22 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 traps, catches, gimmicks, gotchas, hitches, jokers, land mines, pitfalls, snags snares, traps, trip wires, webshazards, perils, risksbombs, bombshells, kickers, surprises(also surprizes)baits, decoys, lures 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 binds, boxes, corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles 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 dilemmas, double binds, quandaries deadlocks, impasses, quagmires, stalemates, standoffsknots, problemsbinds, difficulties, fixes, holes, jams, pickles, pinches, plights, predicaments, spots breezes, cinches, duck soup, snaps |