Catch-22 : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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	German	English
	Da beißt sich die Katze in den Schwanz. [übtr.]	It/this is catch-22.
	Doch Shirin flieht nach Deutschland und gerät wie so viele in die Falle der Bürokratie: Ohne Arbeit keine Aufenthaltserlaubnis und ohne Aufenthaltserlaubnis keine Arbeit. [G]	But Shirin flees to Germany and, like so many others, gets trapped in the catch-22 of bureaucracy: no residence permit without a job and no job without a residence permit.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.