- which came first the chicken or the egg?
- Which came first the chicken or the egg?This idiomatic expression is used when it is not clear who or what caused something.
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which came first the chicken or the egg? — This idiomatic expression is used when it is not clear who or what caused something. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Which came first the chicken or the egg? — This idiomatic expression is used when it is not clear who or what caused something … Dictionary of English idioms
Chicken or the egg — Illustration from Tacuina sanitatis, Fourteenth century The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as which came first, the chicken or the egg? To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the … Wikipedia
chicken — 1 noun 1 BIRD (C) a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs: He keeps chickens on his farm. see also: hen, cock 1 (1), rooster 2 MEAT (U) the meat from this bird eaten as food: roast chicken | fried chicken | chicken soup 3 SB WHO IS… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
chicken — chick|en1 S2 [ˈtʃıkın] n [: Old English; Origin: cicen young chicken ] 1.) a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs →↑hen, cock ↑cock, rooster ↑rooster, chick ↑chick 2.) [U] … Dictionary of contemporary English
chicken — noun 1》 a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one. 2》 informal a coward. ↘a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser. adjective informal cowardly. verb… … English new terms dictionary
chicken-and-egg — UK / US adjective [only before noun] 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 • Etymology: From the question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? ,… … English dictionary
chicken-and-egg — ˌchik(ə̇)nən(d)¦eg, ¦āg adjective Etymology: so called from the proverbial question “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” : of, relating to, or being a cause and effect dilemma * * * adj used to describe a situation in which it is difficult … Useful english dictionary
chicken-and-egg — denoting a situation in which each of two things appears to be necessary to the other. [from the question ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg?’] → chicken … English new terms dictionary
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