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Definition chicken-and-egg in American English

chicken-and-egg adjective

adjective

From the question: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, which is impossible to answer because neither could exist without the other.

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a chicken-and-egg situation is one where it is impossible to say which of two things happened first or caused the other to happen

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Definition chicken-and-egg in American English