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The term comes from the book entitled Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. It was later made into a movie by the same name. So Why "catch 22"? The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but due to the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven this was also rejected. Catch-17 was also rejected, so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as well as Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number". Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel. (quoted from wikipedia)

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The phrase came from the book of the same name.

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