Catch-22

This came up when I was watching a YouTube video about credit cards and credit history.

The video described how you need a good credit history to get approved for a credit card, but then you also need a first credit card to start building a credit history. The YouTuber then said it is a classic "Catch-22" (obviously I couldn't figure out the hyphen in-between at the time).

I could sort of guess the meaning of this slang from the context, but just to be sure, I searched it on Urban Dictionary. Catch-22 essentially means a dilemma, a sticky situation, or something that's impossible to attain because of self-contradictions.

Similar explanations can be found on the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, where it's described as "an unpleasant situation from which you cannot escape because you need to do one thing before doing a second, but you need to do the second thing before doing the first".