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adjective [only before noun]     chicken-and-egg pronunciation in British English
  1. 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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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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