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chicken-and-egg
[ chik-uhn-uhn-eg, -uhnd- ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or being a dilemma of which of two things came first or of which is the cause and which the effect:
a chicken-and-egg question of whether matter or energy is the basis of the universe.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicken-and-egg1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
“It is a chicken-and-egg thing,” says one senior Western diplomat in Doha.
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